Height of desert photovoltaic bracket

Are deserts a good place to build a PV power station?

Deserts are becoming the ideal places for constructing photovoltaic (PV) power stations, due to sufficient light conditions and broadly available land resources (Tanner et al., 2020). Apart from croplands, deserts are the most deployed areas for PV power stations worldwide by 2018 (Kruitwagen et al., 2021).

Does a PV power plant in the desert have a heating effect?

The PV power plant in the desert has a heating effect on the ambient temperature during the day, but the ambient temperature is not a distinct change at night (Broadbent et al., 2019). The characteristic of heating effect is not only presented daily change.

Do large-scale PV panels change vegetation in desert areas?

At the macro level, there is still a lack of understanding and evidence of vegetation changes in desert areas resulting from large-scale PV panel deployment, partly because large-scale field surveys can be costly and time-consuming.

Do PV panels affect air temperature in deserts and lakes?

In brief, there are no obvious effects of the deployment of PV arrays on air temperature at various heights in deserts and lakes. However, the physical properties of deserts and lakes are different, so how does the temperature of the PV panels change. Fig. 4.

Does vegetation cover PV power stations in different deserts?

Although the deployment area of GTD and BJD is relatively high (>4 km 2), the vegetation area of GTD and BJD is very low (0.36 km 2 and 0.07 km 2 respectively), which indicates that the proportion of vegetation coverage in PV power stations in different deserts is quite different. Fig. 5.

What is the air temperature delta of a PV power plant?

The air temperature delta in the two sites is 0.04 °C at 10 m in desert. For the PV power plant on the lake, the air temperature at 2 m is increased from 27.71 in the REF site to 27.80 °C in the PV site. The air temperature delta at 10 m in the two sites is 0.05 °C.