Siting solar & transmission easements?
December 4th, 2020
Brainfart today while working on Data Requests.
NextEra’s Grant County Solar Energy Center Citizen Concerns and Their Justifications
If you’re wanting to site solar on land, rather than on rooftops, wouldn’t transmission easements be a logical place to site solar?
Some lines have distribution underbuilds for convenient interconnection, and many have distributions crossing at various points, for convenient interconnection.
Trees have been cleared, and clearances should be sufficient to allow for low arrays.
Why not? Do tell…
From wind siting, I know that siting decisions are often backwards, and with solar, that is certainly the case. They get the land first, and then figure out how to connect. Distributed solar isn’t even considered, siting near load isn’t even considered. There are better ways to do this.
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