Renewable energy developers choose sunny locations, which can be near protected lands. jsmoorman/flickr October 20, 2015 Can we expand solar power dramatically without damaging protected lands? Grace C Wu, University of California, Berkeley; Michelle L Murphy-Mariscal, University of California, Riverside, and Rebecca Hernandez, University of California, Berkeley Study shows that many of the utility-scale solar power plants in California have been placed near protected and environmentally sensitive lands.
