2 75 tw or 2 750 000 mw would require 13 750 000 acres.
Area of solar panels needed to power us.
Total area 1 0 18 5 56 m 2.
And just to power the united states.
The batteries you need to store the energy to make sure you have 24 7 power is 1 mile by 1 mile.
You have a rough estimate of the space required by the solar panels of your system.
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Btu to kwh conversion.
0 000293071 qbtu 1 x 1015 btu.
A megawatt of solar power plant requires about 5 acres of land.
Just 11 200 000 acres to generate 4 000 000.
Number of 1 m2 pv panels required to produce needed energy 18 388 060 454 653 number of square miles of pv panels required 7 099 667 total land mass area of united states sq.
With solar panels it would take a fairly small corner of nevada or texas or utah.
A few counties in texas.
If you wanted to power the entire u s.
You only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire united states.
So you re saying it would only take 0 6 of the surface area of the continental united states to power the entire country with renewable solar power.