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When Energy Issues Are Land Use Issues: Estimating Preferences for Utility-Scale Solar Energy Siting

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  • Vasundhara Gaur
  • Corey Lang
  • Gregory Howard
  • Ruth Quainoo

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Although solar energy receives broad support in general, utility-scale solar arrays can be contentious because at the siting stage, it becomes a land use issue replete with potential disamenities and trade-offs. We conduct a choice experiment survey to estimate preferences for attributes of utility-scale solar arrays in Rhode Island, United States. Our results suggest that the largest indicator of solar development approval is prior land use, with residents willing to pay an additional $10–$21 in monthly utility bills for developments in commercial, industrial, brownfield, and covered landfill areas, and $13–$49 to avoid developments on farm and forest land.

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  • Vasundhara Gaur & Corey Lang & Gregory Howard & Ruth Quainoo, 2023. "When Energy Issues Are Land Use Issues: Estimating Preferences for Utility-Scale Solar Energy Siting," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 99(3), pages 343-363.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:99:y:2023:i:3:p:343-363
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.99.3.111221-0130R1
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    1. Dong, Luran & Gaur, Vasundhara & Lang, Corey, 2023. "Property value impacts of onshore wind energy in New England: The importance of spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    2. Hu, Chenyang & Chen, Zhenshan & Zhang, Wei & Bosch, Darrell J., 2024. "Sunrise Over Fields: Assessing the Influence of Solar Development on US Agricultural Property Values," 2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA 343955, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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    JEL classification:

    • Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land
    • Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources

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