This compendium, developed by Ipieca and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), aims to encourage the exploration of co-use opportunities in solar and wind energy projects, focusing on onshore projects. The main co-use strategies typically fall into several key categories, depending on the secondary land use integrated with renewable energy projects. Co-use could include co-locating two or more types of renewable energy generation on one site. However, the scope of this compendium focuses on the co-use opportunities that optimise space, land use and infrastructure by combining renewable energy production with other activities that have the potential to maximise projects’ social, environmental and economic values and benefits. This compendium thus explores in detail two main categories of co-use strategies: "agricultural" and "nature-based". It also introduces two other categories: "urban and rural infrastructure development" and "mining".
Includes bibliographic references.
