{"id":292,"date":"2026-06-30T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/?p=292"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:28:03","slug":"what-size-land-mass-is-needed-to-power-the-world-with-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/what-size-land-mass-is-needed-to-power-the-world-with-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"What Size Land Mass is Needed to Power the World With Solar Panels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Size Land Mass is Needed to Power the World With Solar Panels?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can the world\u2019s energy needs be fully supplied by renewables?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IN the Article&#8217;s video, Guy Sella \u2013 CEO and Founder of SolarEdge, talks about the amount of solar power hitting the earth \u2013 in one hour more energy from the sun hits the earth\u2019s surface than what the world consume sin one year \u2013 and the amount of land needed to harvest that solar energy to power the earth\u2019s entire needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint \u2013 it is smaller than you think!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SolarEdge\u2019s grid services offer aggregative control and data reporting enabling the pooling of PV and storage in the cloud for the creation of virtual power plants. Offering benefits to all stakeholders, the solution will provide utilities with the tools to leverage distributed energy generation systems to more efficiently meet demand. Energy retailers will enjoy protection from price peaks and PV system owners can increase their revenue fro&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Full Article:<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynmb.co.za\/what-size-land-mass-is-needed-to-power-the-world-with-solar-panels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mynmb.co.za\/what-size-land-mass-is-needed-to-power-the-world-with-solar-panels\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\/<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Contact Alan Straton<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyPE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alanstraton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alanstraton\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/MyPEco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/MyPEco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanstraton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanstraton\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>&#8216;Advertise&#8217; Your Article for free:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/submit\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to drop a link and short description to your published work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Size Land Mass is Needed to Power the World With Solar Panels? Can the world\u2019s energy needs be fully supplied by renewables? IN the Article&#8217;s video, Guy Sella \u2013 CEO and Founder of SolarEdge, talks about the amount of solar power hitting the earth \u2013 in one hour more energy from the sun hits &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"class_list":["type-post","category-journalists","tag-mynmb","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}