Land Requirements for Utility-Scale PV: An Empirical Update on Power ...
When combined with plant metadata, these polygon areas allow us to calculate power (MW/acre) and energy (MWh/acre) density for each plant in the sample, and to analyze density trends over time,byfixed-tiltversustrackingplants,andbyplantlatitudeand site irradiance. We find that the median power density increased by 52% for fixed-tilt plants and 43% for tracking …