Solar photovoltaic power plant light pollution
Solar power offers air quality benefits, but its efficacy may be impacted by pollution in the lower atmosphere that reduces the amount of light reaching the solar installation.
Solar power offers air quality benefits, but its efficacy may be impacted by pollution in the lower atmosphere that reduces the amount of light reaching the solar installation.
A case study identifying and mitigating the environmental and community impacts from construction of a utility-scale solar photovoltaic power plant in eastern Australia.
The potential environmental impacts associated with solar power—land use and habitat loss, water use, and the use of hazardous materials in manufacturing—can vary greatly depending on the technology, which includes two broad categories: photovoltaic (PV) solar cells or concentrating solar thermal plants (CSP).
Compared with fossil-based electrical power system, PV solar energy has significantly lower pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. However, PV solar technology are not free of adverse environmental consequences such as biodiversity and habitat loss, climatic effects, resource consumption, and disposal of massive end-of-life PV panels.
In this work, we address and discuss the environmental impacts of solar energy systems, demonstrated by commercially available and emerging solar PV and CSP systems with the most effective and recent LCAs and environmental impacts analysis for the technologies.
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