Solar Energy Siting:The Right Power in the Right Place

Land trusts are stepping forward to help guide the design and siting of new solar facilities, always keeping top-of-mind the preservation of agricultural, ecological and other conservation resources.

Land trusts can play an important role in renewable energy development. This publication offers specific guidance on ways that land trusts can participate in renewable energy siting planning and implementation to support improved conservation outcomes in the context of a changing climate.

To help accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in a way that helps people and nature thrive, The Nature Conservancy is providing the Site Renewables Right interactive online map. The map synthesizes more than 100 layers of engineering, land-use and wildlife data.

American Farmland Trust released Smart Solar℠ principles for solar development that will ensure we maintain our ability to produce food, fuel and fiber to sustain our nation for generations to come.

As the transition to a clean energy system accelerates and renewable energy development pressures increase, land trusts are facing, with far greater frequency, questions regarding renewable energy and conservation easements. This document outlines key considerations when drafting easements and for responding to landowner requests for siting renewable energy on existing easements.

In this webinar, Rebecca Weston will explore the disconnect between what so many of us are feeling and what so few people are talking about: our climate distress.

Scenic Hudson’s How To Solar Now toolkit supports communities in a rapid transition to a sustainable, low carbon region increasingly powered by clean, emissions-free renewable energy while also protecting and preserving our invaluable scenic, agricultural, environmental and economic resources.

Provides guidance on which commercial activities and events the Maryland Environmental Trust will consider on its properties.