This is the only solution that makes sense everywhere where land is not a million dollars an acre (places not California).

Arable land in England is about $10k an acre. Until the council grants permission to build housing on it, then it jumps to between $500k and $2m an acre because housing is in such short supply.

This is partly because the UK is addicted to cheap food and has no interest in food security. The big supermarkets can push the price they pay for produce so low that farmers can't make a living so there is little demand for farmland.

Yeah, but that one solar farm that tried to game farming subsidies by letting goats roam with no change to the panels or racking had 3 panels damaged so that's impossible /s

Just gotta keep the goats off the panels (a real problem!)

Actually, we don't need cheese.

It's more that we want cheese

Yes this, and car parking lots

And over the top of every aqueduct, storm channel, and man made 'river' designed to deliver water to large urban areas. Generates power and helps reduce that annoying evaporation.

It would be cool to see photovoltaic's manufactured into shade spheres like these things:

https://youtu.be/mEmwJzQjwyw

Maybe they could combat algae blooms at the same time too