A new book published under the auspice of the European Commission (JRC Science Hub) addresses the challenges of large scale PV park implementation: Beauty and Power of Designed Photovoltaics, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio (2016). The book features a chapter authored by Esther Bergstra and Sven Stremke from the NRGlab. This publication draws from the findings of the ZONB research project on large-scale PV parks in the Netherlands, conducted...

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In July 2014, the NRGlab finalized and presented the ZonB research project to the Province of Noord-Brabant. The Province had asked us to develop a spatial framework to inform the development of large PV parks (or solar field). In this project, the spatial integration of solar fields was tested and discussed for four different landscape types in Noord-Brabant. The research was structured along three principal questions: WHAT? WHERE? and HOW? A...

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