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Base Exclusions (Solar)
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The base exclusions consist of two main categories of exclusion – the protected area layer and the techno-economic exclusion layer. The base exclusions form the... -
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Draft CEC Cropland Index Model High Category for 2026-2027 IRP
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For the 26-27 IRP, CEC updated the input datasets to the model to use the most recent available versions of the input data, leaving the transformation scale, weights... -
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Draft Critical Habitat for 2026-2027 IRP
State of California —
This layer consists of the most recent footprints of the Proposed and Final Critical Habitat for Threatened and Endangered Species from the United States Fish and... -
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Draft Wind Techno-economic Exclusions for 2026-2027 IRP
State of California —
The wind techno-economic exclusion layer has been updated for proposed use in the current 2026-2027 IRP cycle. The previous version was developed in 2023. Two changes... -
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Draft Base Exclusions (Solar) for 2026-2027 IRP
State of California —
This version of the base exclusions incorporates the latest draft version of the Protected Area Layer (Solar) and the techno-economic exclusion layer. The base... -
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CEC Cropland Index Model (Classified)
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For lands used to produce crops, CEC developed a suitability model to simultaneously evaluate several factors that impact an area’s relative implication for... -
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Draft Terrestrial Landscape Intactness for 2026-2027 IRP
State of California —
This category of planning priorities provides an estimate of terrestrial landscape condition based on the extent to which human impacts such as agriculture, urban... -
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ACE Climate Resilience (Ranks 4 & 5)
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The full dataset comes from CA Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE) project. ACE Terrestrial Climate Change Resilience incorporates... -
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Critical Habitat
State of California —
This layer consists of the merged footprints of the USFWS critical habitat and the USFWS proposed Bi-State Sage-Grouse critical habitat,1 clipped to California.... -
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Draft Base Exclusions (Wind) for 2026-2027 IRP
State of California —
This version of the base exclusions incorporates the latest draft version of the Protected Area Layer and the latest Techno-economic Exclusion layers for wind. The... -
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Protected Areas Exclusion (Solar)
State of California —
The geospatial data reflected in the protected area layer mostly pertain to natural and wilderness areas where development of utility-scale renewable energy is... -
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Protected Areas Exclusion (Geothermal)
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The datasets that are included in the composite layer making up the protected area layer are given below: DatasetExample DesignationsCitation or hyperlinkPAD-US (CBI... -
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ACE Biodiversity (Rank 5)
State of California —
Terrestrial Biodiversity Summary is the combined result of three measures of biodiversity in CA Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE)... -
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Geothermal Resource Potential by Field
State of California —
This data layer contains geothermal resource areas and their technical potential used in long-term electric system modeling for Integrated Resource Planning and SB... -
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Base Exclusions (Wind)
State of California —
The base exclusions consist of two main categories of exclusion – the protected area layer and the techno-economic exclusion layer. The base exclusions form the... -
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Draft Protected Areas Exclusion (Geothermal) for 2026-2027 IRP
State of California —
The geospatial data reflected in this Protected Area Layer contain minor data versioning and consolidation updates from the previous Protected Area Layer. This layer... -
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Draft Protected Areas Exclusion (Wind) for 2026-2027 IRP
State of California —
The geospatial data reflected in this Protected Area Layer contain minor data versioning and consolidation updates from the previous Protected Area Layer. The... -
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Protected Areas Exclusion (Wind)
State of California —
The datasets that are included in the composite layer making up the protected area layer are given below: Dataset Example Designations Citation or hyperlink PAD-US... -
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ACE Irreplaceability (Rank 4 & 5)
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The full Terrestrial Irreplaceability dataset is part of the Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE) project from CA Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). ACE... -
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Terrestrial Intactness (Classified)
State of California —
This category of planning priorities in the CEC 2023 Land-Use Screens provides an estimate of terrestrial landscape condition based on the extent to which human...