Solar farms can host three times as many birds as crop fields

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Solar farms can host three times as many birds as crop fields

By Catherine Waite, Research Associate, Department of Zoology, and Joshua Copping, Conservation Scientist, RSPB & Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge The UK’s installed capacity of solar power expanded rapidly over the past decade to reach 17.2G) in 2024—enough electricity to power roughly 4 million homes. The government aims to raise solar generation capacity to 70GW by 2035. And by 2050, the government’s advisers estimate that as much…