Jiakuan Yang

Nov 6, 2023 | nature.com | Ning Zhang |Huabo Duan |Yuli Shan |Jiakuan Yang

The rapid spread of solar power plants onto cropland is having increasingly detrimental impacts. Targeted policy and technological solutions are urgently needed to resolve the tension between renewable energy and food production. The spatial mismatch between energy demand and supply in China exacerbates the situation. Production of solar energy is shifting from the land- and solar-radiation-rich west of China towards the east, where energy demand and markets are well developed (Fig. 2e).