Is Biofuel Land Better Used for Solar?

As the clean energy transition picks up pace around the world, more and more land is needed to accommodate utility-scale solar and wind farms. Solar and wind farms need land that is both well-suited to their climatic and geographic needs and large enough to make the project worthwhile. Unfortunately, these types of land are also frequently among those most suitable for agriculture, creating policy and economic tensions between food security and energy security.  Utility-scale solar and wind farms require a whopping 10 times as much land as…