{"id":31556,"date":"2024-01-28T17:35:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31556"},"modified":"2024-01-28T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:35:46","slug":"the-us-says-it-needs-up-to-22m-acres-for-the-solar-energy-transition-heres-what-that-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31556","title":{"rendered":"The US says it needs up to 22m acres for the solar energy transition \u2013 here\u2019s what that looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31558 hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38.jpg 1031w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-530x530.jpg 530w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-750x750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/solar-power-usa-needs-22million-acres-by2035-2024-01-28_17-30-38-675x675.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>The Bureau of Land Management proposed using 22m acres of public land for solar projects \u2013 roughly the size of Maine, or an area larger than Scotland<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/23\/us-solar-energy-transition-land\">The US says it needs up to 22m acres for the solar energy transition \u2013 here\u2019s what that looks like<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>perfect example of a state (USA, not individual states)-level projects that could be funded by an <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?tag=mmt\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MMT<\/a>; create 1T$, call for 1T$ worth of solar building contracts, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Land Management proposed using 22m acres of public land&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[25,106,140,177,57],"class_list":["post-31556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-energy","tag-mmt","tag-paul","tag-solar","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31559,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31556\/revisions\/31559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}