Land Use

Virginia passes an agrivoltaics law to pair farming with solar, defining the concept, blocking local solar bans, and signaling incentives as data-center demand and farmland loss press the case for land-use reform.

New York rebuts the 'solar=farmland taker' myth with data showing solar uses a tiny share of prime and general farmland, supports farming through leases, and notes supportive zoning; the piece also frames ongoing regulatory shifts and political rhetoric around energy policy.

SEIA data shows solar occupies a tiny fraction of Ohio prime farmland, while golf courses and suburban sprawl use far more land, and the regulatory landscape around solar siting is tightening in places, though co-existence with farming is increasingly demonstrated.