Project survey

Large-Scale (Utility-Scale) Photovoltaic Power Plants 1980–2010, Project Survey and Key Statistical Indicators; Includes an extensive overview of large-scale photovoltaic power plants >20 MW commissioned up to 2020.

Literature survey

	Large-Scale (Utility-Scale) Photovoltaic Power Plants 1980-2015, Literature Survey. ISBN 978-961-288-634-9 (pdf), includes abstracts. Extended edition with short introduction and indices on CD-rom is available upon request.
	Large-Scale (Utility-Scale) Photovoltaic Power Plants 1980-2015, Literature Survey. Supplemental information to paper 7DV.4.36 presented on 32nd EU PVSEC, 20-24th June 2016, Munich, Germany.

Old pvresources' reports

	Large Scale PV Power Plants 2000 - 2010. Annual Review 2010 - Detailed overview about PV power installed (only large-scale PV power plants considered) in the period from 2000 to 2010.
	Large Scale PV Power Plants, Annual Review 2008 - Detailed overview about PV power installed (only large-scale PV power plants considered) in the period from 1997 to 2008. Co-authors Ulrich Dewald and Sibylle Petrak.
	Large Scale PV Power Plants, Annual Review 2007 - overview about PV power installed (only large-scale PV power plants considered) up to 2007.

Renewable energy maps

La Tene Maps - Renewable and Solar PV Maps collection including PV power plants in UK and Europe.

Books

Kurokawa, Kusoke (ed.). 2003. Energy from the Desert: Feasibility of Very Large Scale Power Generation (VLS-PV), Volume 1. London: James&James. ISBN 1-902916-41-7.

Kurokawa, Kusoke, Keiichi Komoto, Peter van der Vleuten and David Faiman. 2007. Energy from the Desert: Practical Proposals for Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems, Volume 2. London: Earthscan. ISBN 978-1-84407-363-4.

Komoto, Keichii, Masakazu Ito, Peter van der Vleuten, David Faiman and Kosuke Kurokawa. 2009. Energy from the Desert: Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems: Socio-economic, Financial, Technical and Environmental Aspects. Volume 3. London: Earthscan. ISBN 978-1-84407-794-6.

Komoto, Keiichi, Christian Breyer, Edwin Cunow, Karim Megherbi, David Faiman and Peter van der Vleuten. 2013. Energy from the Desert: Very Large Scale PV Power State of the Art and Into The Future, Volume 4. Boca Raton, FL. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-41563-982-8.

Deambi, Suneel. 2010. Solar PV Power: A Global Perspective. New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). ISBN: 978-8179933893.

Reports

Komoto, Keiichi (ed.). 2015. Energy from the Desert. Very Large Scale PV Power Plants: for Shifting to Renewable Energy Future. IEA PVPS Task8, External Final Report IEA-PVPS. ISBN 978-3-906042-29-9.

Metayer, Matthieu, Christian Breyer and Hans-Josef Fell. 2015. The projections for the future and quality in the past of the World Energy Outlook for solar PV and other renewable energy technologies. INSA, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Energy Watch Group.

Ong, Sean, Clinton Campbell, Paul Denholm, Robert Margolis and Garvin Heath. 2013. Land-Use Requirements for Solar Power Plants in the United States, Technical Report, NREL/TP-6A20-56290, June 2013. Golden, CO: NREL.

Papers

Turney, Damon and Vasilis Fthenakis. 2011. Environmental impacts from the installation and operation of large-scale solar power plants. In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 15, Issue 6, pp.3261–3270. DOI 10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.023.

Hernandez, R.R. et al. 2014. Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy. In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 29, pp.766–779. DOI 10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.041.

Phillips, Jason. 2013. Determining the sustainability of large-scale photovoltaic solar power plants. In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 27, pp.435–444. DOI 10.1016/j.rser.2013.07.003.

Other information

	IEA-PVPS Task 8 - The objectives of the Task 8 were to examine and evaluate the potential of very large-scale photovoltaic power generation (VLS-PV) systems.
	Renewables on Islands - Small isolated systems allow for learning about our decentralized energy systems of the future. Solar- and wind-diesel-hybrid-systems can form powerful mini-grids.