Development Threat Index, v1 (2015): Solar
The Development Threat Index is part of the Land Use Land Cover collection. The cumulative development threat index is a terrestrial global, future development threat map based on combining these resources: agricultural expansion, urban expansion, conventional oil and gas, unconventional oil and gas, coal, mining, biofuels, solar, and wind. Each threat ranked potential development from 0–100 with 100 indicating the highest potential for future development of the resource and were produced at a 50 square kilometer (km2) grid cell resolution, excluding all cells overlapping Antarctica and those with >50% considered marine. This map displays the projected future development threat of utility-scale solar power. The area-ranked threat scores are based on a combined metric of solar resources in watts per square meter (W/m2), land suitability, and economic feasibility for solar power development.
Development Threat Index, v1 (2015): Solar
The Development Threat Index is part of the Land Use Land Cover collection. The cumulative development threat index is a terrestrial global, future development threat map based on combining these resources: agricultural expansion, urban expansion, conventional oil and gas, unconventional oil and gas, coal, mining, biofuels, solar, and wind. Each threat ranked potential development from 0–100 with 100 indicating the highest potential for future development of the resource and were produced at a 50 square kilometer (km2) grid cell resolution, excluding all cells overlapping Antarctica and those with >50% considered marine. This map displays the projected future development threat of utility-scale solar power. The area-ranked threat scores are based on a combined metric of solar resources in watts per square meter (W/m2), land suitability, and economic feasibility for solar power development.