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Ferreras Alonso, Noelia Capellán Pérez, Iñigo Adam, Alexandros Blas Sanz, Ignacio De Mediavilla Pascual, Margarita 2025-01-10T08:05:50Z 2025-01-10T08:05:50Z 2024 Energy, septiembre 2024, vol. 302, 131617 0360-5442 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73606 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131617 131617 Energy 302 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. eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2024 The Authors Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Mitigation of land-related impacts of solar deployment in the European Union through land planning policies info:eu-repo/semantics/article