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Utility-scale wind energy development in rural United States concentrated in Plains, Midwest, and West regions, 2020

by Karen Maguire, Sophia Tanner and Justin B. Winikoff
9/12/2024

Land Use, Land Value & Tenure

U.S. map showing location of utility-scale solar projects and the years when they were placed, of wind turbines in the rural United States in the West, Plains, Midwest, South, and Atlantic regions in 2020.

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USDA, Economic Research Service researchers recently studied how solar and wind development affects land cover near wind turbines and solar farms. They found that cropland or pasture-rangeland usually stayed in the same land cover even after the addition of solar or wind development.

Utility-scale wind energy development in rural United States concentrated in Plains, Midwest, and West regions, 2020

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