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‘Green Grab’: Solar and Wind Boom Sparks Conflicts on Land Use

Fred Pearce · 20 Feb 2025

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  1. Increasingly, the answer can be found in innovative ways to share the same space.
  2. Ever more land conflicts seem inevitable — certainly for solar power, which operates best in unshaded areas with gentle winds and moderate temperatures, the same conditions favored by many crops.

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