Rural America Set to Be Transformed by up to 55 Million-Acre Federal Solar Plan
‘Our public lands are playing a critical role in the clean energy transition,’ said Laura Daniel-Davis, acting deputy secretary of the Interior Department.
Solar energy’s appetite for vast amounts of land has prompted the Biden administration to propose designating as much as 55 million acres of public lands as potential sites for industrial-scale solar farms.
That’s an area larger than 36 states and similar in size to Idaho or Minnesota.
