You are correct. "Small" utility-scale solar projects of 1-20 MW capacity take 7.6 acres of land per megawatt-peak, for fixed-tilt ground mount systems: http:/

You are correct. "Small" utility-scale solar projects of 1-20 MW capacity take 7.6 acres of land per megawatt-peak, for fixed-tilt ground mount systems: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2013/08/calculating-solar-energys-land-use-footprint.html http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2013/08/calcula... Fixed-tilt utility scale systems just recently fell to $0.99 per watt-peak in the US: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Sunshot-1-Per-Watt-Solar-Cost-Goal-Mission-Accomplished-Years-Ahead-of-S https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Sunshot-1-Per-W... You can buy 124 acres of land in California's sunny Imperial County, near existing solar farms, for $95,000: http://www.landwatch.com/Imperial-County-California-Land-for-sale/pid/3446602 http://www.landwatch.com/Imperial-County-California-Land-for... If you turned that land into a solar farm you could fit about 16 megawatts of fixed-tilt solar arrays on it. 16 MWp of installed solar equipment would cost $15.84 million at $0.99/watt and the land is $0.095 million. Land accounts for only 0.6% of the combined costs. (A 16 MWp farm is small by utility-scale project standards and probably would not cost only $0.99/watt because of dis-economies of small scale. I cited $0.99/watt to set a conservative bound on how much cost the land component represents in a utility scale solar project.)