California has a well-established pipeline for utility-scale solar development with 7,705 MW capacity for 244 planned projects, 28,493 MW capacity for 119 queued projects, and 4,386 MW capacity for 31 site control projects. Overall, if all planned, queued, and site control farms go into operating status, California will expand its capacity by 40 GW. In California, the average solar farm size is 171 acres, producing 17.8 MW of electricity under ideal conditions. So a solar farm in California needs an average of 9.6 acres per 1 MW of capacity.
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