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

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.

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.

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