Area Required for Solar PV Power Plants
A 100 MW thermal power plant for instance would require less than 10% of the total area that a 100 MW solar PV power plant would. ... A simple rule of thumb is to take 100 sqft for every 1kW of solar panels. Extrapolating this, a 1 MW solar PV power plant should require about 100000 sqft (about 2.5 acres, or 1 hectare). ...