A study from a federal lab found utility-scale solar farms don't significantly affect nearby property values – and the effect was only in rural areas.

The first phase of Project Nexus, a study on integrating renewable energy with water conservation by utilizing solar-covered ...

The 20-megawatt Maricopa West solar project, surrounded by almond groves, ... The study mapped out several strategies for getting from 26 million acres down to 21 million.

They found that the value of houses within one mile of a solar project decreased by an average of 1.7 percent following construction of the project. The two studies each show a small decrease in ...

A new study finds that houses within a half-mile of a utility-scale solar farm have resale prices that are, on average, 1.5 percent less than houses that are just a little farther away. The ...

Some of the largest impacts were in suburban communities when a solar project was built on a farm or forested property. In those instances, housing prices within a mile of the array dropped by 5%.

The U.S. needs a lot more renewable energy to meet its climate goals. In some communities, the opposition to large solar projects comes from environmentalists themselves.

He made the case for locating solar projects away from homes and outside of suburban areas. “If you take those steps, the benefit-cost analysis will look a lot better,” Lang said.

Among the key challenges to the Study's suggested solar integration is the fact that federal permitting regimes have created extraordinarily long project development timelines since the 1970s.

In this case study, the Project Productions Institute (PPI) led the development and study process of the Sherco Solar project in Sherburne County, Minnesota.

Tippecanoe County commissioners approved a one-year moratorium on industrial solar fields to review the current green-energy ordinance. The moratorium allows the county to study health, wellness ...

What’s next? The project is the first of its kind to go online as part of the Clean Power Alliance’s portfolio — and there are 12 similar projects in the pipeline, Bardacke said.