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The site suitability criteria\nincluded in the techno-economic land use screens are listed below. As this list\nis an update to previous cycles, tribal lands, prime farmland, and flood zones\nare not included as they are not technically infeasible for development. The\ntechno-economic site suitability exclusion thresholds are presented in Table 1.\nDistances indicate the minimum distance from each feature for commercial scale\nsolar development.

Attributes:

Steeply sloped areas: change in\nvertical elevation compared to horizontal distance

Population\ndensity: the number of people living in a 1 km2 area

Urban\nareas: defined by the U.S. Census.8

Water\nbodies: defined by the U.S. National Atlas Water Feature Areas,\navailable from Argonne National Lab Energy Zone Mapping Tool9

Railways:\na comprehensive database of North America's railway system from\nthe Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), available from Argonne\nNational Lab Energy Zone Mapping Tool

Major\nhighways: available from ESRI Living Atlas10

Airports:\nThe Airports dataset including other aviation facilities as of July 13, 2018 is\npart of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation\nStatistics' (BTS's) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The\nAirports database is a geographic point database of aircraft landing facilities\nin the United States and U.S. Territories. Attribute data is provided\u00a0on the physical\nand operational characteristics of the landing facility, current usage\nincluding enplanements and aircraft operations, congestion levels and usage\ncategories. This geospatial data is derived from the FAA's National Airspace\nSystem Resource Aeronautical Data Product. Available from Argonne National Lab\nEnergy Zone Mapping Tool

Active\nmines: Active Mines and Mineral Processing Plants in the United\nStates in 200311

Military Lands: Land owned by the federal government that is part of\u00a0 a US military base, camp, post, station, yard, center or installation.


Table\n1

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\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n
\n

\u00a0

\n 		\n

Solar

\n
\n

Steeply sloped areas

\n 		\n

>10o

\n
\n

Population density

\n 		\n

>100/km2

\n
\n

Capacity\n factor

\n 		\n

<20%

\n
\n

Urban areas

\n 		\n

<500 m

\n
\n

Water bodies

\n 		\n

<250 m

\n
\n

Railways

\n 		\n

<30 m

\n
\n

Major\n highways

\n 		\n

<125 m

\n
\n

Airports

\n 		\n

<1000 m

\n
\n

Active mines

\n 		\n

<1000 m

\n
\n

Military Lands

\n 		\n

<1000m

\n

\n\n

For more information about the\nprocesses and sources used to develop the screening criteria see sources 1-7 in\nthe footnotes.

\n\n

Data updates occur as needed, corresponding to typical\n3-year CPUC IRP planning cycles.


Footnotes:

[1]\nLopez, A. et. al. \u201cU.S. Renewable Energy Technical Potentials: A GIS-Based\nAnalysis,\u201d 2012. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51946.pdf

[2]\u00a0https://greeningthegrid.org/Renewable-Energy-Zones-Toolkit/topics/social-environmental-and-other-impacts#ReadingListAndCaseStudies

[3] Multi-Criteria Analysis for Renewable Energy (MapRE),\nUniversity of California Santa Barbara. https://mapre.es.ucsb.edu/

[4]\nLarson, E. et. al. \u201cNet-Zero\nAmerica: Potential Pathways, Infrastructure, and Impacts, Interim Report.\u201d\nPrinceton University, 2020. https://environmenthalfcentury.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf331/files/2020-12/Princeton_NZA_Interim_Report_15_Dec_2020_FINAL.pdf.

[5]\nWu, G. et. al. \u201cLow-Impact Land\nUse Pathways to Deep Decarbonization of Electricity.\u201d Environmental Research\nLetters 15, no. 7 (July 10, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab87d1.

[6]\nRETI Coordinating Committee,\nRETI Stakeholder Steering Committee. \u201cRenewable Energy Transmission Initiative\nPhase 1B Final Report.\u201d California Energy Commission, January 2009.

[7] Pletka,\nRyan, and Joshua Finn. \u201cWestern Renewable Energy Zones, Phase 1: QRA\nIdentification Technical Report.\u201d Black & Veatch and National Renewable\nEnergy Laboratory, 2009. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy10osti/46877.pdf.

[8]\u00a0https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2019&layergroup=Urban+Areas

[9] https://ezmt.anl.gov/

[10]\nhttps://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fc870766a3994111bce4a083413988e4

[11] https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/



Credits

Title:\nTechno-economic screening criteria for utility-scale solar photovoltaic energy\ninstallations for Integrated Resource Planning

Purpose for\ncreation: These exclusion criteria are for use in electric system planning, capacity\nexpansion modeling, and integrated resource planning.


Keywords: solar,\nphotovoltaic, resource potential, techno-economic, PV, IRP


Extent: western\nstates of the contiguous U.S.

Use Limitations

The\ngeospatial data created by the use of these techno-economic screens inform\nhigh-level estimates of technical renewable resource potential for electric\nsystem planning and should not be used, on their own, to guide siting of\ngeneration projects nor assess project-level impacts.

Confidentiality:\nPublic

Contact

Emily Leslie Emily@MontaraMtEnergy.com

Sam Schreiber sam.schreiber@ethree.com

Jared Ferguson Jared.Ferguson@cpuc.ca.gov

\n\n

Oluwafemi\nSawyerr femi@ethree.com

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