Who benefits most from rooftop solar capacity?

Who breathes cleaner air when Americans put solar panels on their roofs? Using plant-level emissions data, an air-pollution transport model, and census-block demographics, Bobby Harris (Georgia Tech)—the study’s EPIcenter affiliate— and Travis E. Dauwalter (Artera Services) show that today’s rooftop solar fleet delivers $0.77 in environmental benefits per person annually and disproportionately benefits higher-income households. […]

Solar farms can brighten agricultural land values

Municipalities have shunned solar farms because these large installations are believed to reduce property values. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, Georgia Tech economist Laura Taylor shows that utility-scale solar farms don’t adversely affect sales prices for agricultural land.  The work, published recently in the journal Land Economics, may help inform local decision-making. “As zoning boards […]