Socio-economic impact of photovoltaic park: The Giurgiu County rural area, Romania

Irena Mocanu; Bianca Mitrică; Mihaela Persu

doi:10.3986/AGS.4261

Authors

Irena Mocanu Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, 12 D. Racoviţă Str., Bucharest
Bianca Mitrică Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, 12 D. Racoviţă Str., Bucharest
Mihaela Persu Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, 12 D. Racoviţă Str., Bucharest

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.4261

Keywords:

geography, solar park, land use, regional development, rural space, Romania

Abstract

The paper aims to analyse the socio-economic territorial impact of photovoltaic parks in the rural area of Giurgiu County. The analysis valorises two types of data: the statistical information on the local socio-economic features provided by the National Institute of Statistics and the Giurgiu County Statistics Office, and the specific information about the photovoltaic parks revealed by the interviews applied to the local authorities during field investigation. The case-studies discussed in this paper reflect the socio-economic effects of building and operating the six photovoltaic parks as in the three rural local administrative units – LAU2: Izvoarele, Stăneşti and Malu. This study emphasizes four types of the socio-economic effects of investment in a photovoltaic project on: local rural economy, land use changes, local investments, budget and local labour market.

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Irena Mocanu, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, 12 D. Racoviţă Str., Bucharest

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