Farming land to be used for solar parks in Sweden
- Areas of rich farming land in Skåne in the south of Sweden will have to be used for solar power parks, according to an internal document from the local County Administrative Board, Swedish Radio News reports.
- The use of other land is seen as not enough to meet future needs for fossil-free electricity production in Skåne, which the County Board says is of societal importance.
- Skåne has the country’s best agricultural land, and in recent years the County Administrative Board has rejected several applications for solar parks on the grounds of protecting land used for farming.
Radio Sweden
For more on why authorities are targeting farmland in Skåne, listen to Radio Sweden’s full report.
Related stories from around the North:
Canada: Solar power to help Yukon’s remote grader stations go green, CBC News
Finland: Lapland among regions not in favour of wind power compensation for eastern Finland, Yle News
Iceland: Iceland’s wind power working group calls for input from public, municipalities, Eye on the Arctic
Norway: Will the green transition be the new economic motor in the Arctic?, Eye on the Arctic
Sweden: Wind power to be expanded to all of Sweden, Radio Sweden
United States: Alaska’s Northwest Arctic Borough gets $2 million tribal energy grant, Alaska Public Media
