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Mitigation of land-related impacts of solar deployment in the European Union through land planning policies Ferreras Alonso, Noelia Capellán Pérez, Iñigo Adam, Alexandros Blas Sanz, Ignacio De Mediavilla Pascual, Margarita Integrated Assessment model (IAM) Solar energy Sustainability Land competition System dynamics Climate policy 2212.03 Energía (Física) Producción Científica Solar power is space-intensive and will contribute to intensify land competition, a factor typically not captured by models. This study uses the Integrated Assessment Model WILIAM which explicitly represents the land use changes driven by solar energy expansion through a hard link of its energy and land modules including net energy restrictions. A Green Growth type transition is simulated for the European Union with a high renewable energy share target in electricity mix by 2050, testing different land use planning policies. The results show that a rapid deployment of solar power in land without land policies can intensify land use conflicts and increase associated land use change emissions. Land-use requirements for solar would be 1–1.4 % of total land (corresponding to 55–75 % of urban land), which could be problematic locally. The implementation of land-use protection and land siting policies could reduce 23 % of total land occupied by solar photovoltaics panels (with respect to forest and cropland the area occupied could be reduced up to 88 %), and 23–47 % of the land use change associated emissions with respect to a scenario where not policies are applied. These results show the importance of integrating land use and energy planning policies to alleviate the undesired impacts. Unión Europea-Horizonte 2020 (691287) Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (IJC2020-046215-I) 2025-01-10T08:05:50Z 2025-01-10T08:05:50Z 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Energy, septiembre 2024, vol. 302, 131617 0360-5442 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73606 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131617 131617 Energy 302 eng https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544224013902 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2024 The Authors application/pdf Elsevier https://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/73606/4/mitigation-land-related-impacts-solar-deployment-EU.pdf.jpg Hispana TEXT http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73606