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    Utility Solar Capacity by Type and County: 2020

    Metadata Updated: July 24, 2025

    Energy data is collected for power plants that have a nameplate capacity of 1 MW or more. Counties that are gray either did not report data or had no utility-scale (commercial) solar capacity. Map and data originate from the California Energy Commission Quarterly Fuel and Energy Reports. Data is classified using the Jenk’s Natural Break’s method. Data is from 2020 and is current as of December 13, 2021. Projection: NAD 1983 California (Teale) Albers. For more information, please contact Rebecca Vail at (916) 477-0738 or John Hingtgen at (916) 510-9747.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025

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    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025
    Publisher California Energy Commission
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2023-06-15T18:11:41.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-15T18:12:32.000Z
    Category Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
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    Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250724164837
    Harvest Object Id be7436ec-0ee2-49da-80ea-64b372f6ef86
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ad973d53873f687b2bbc032afddb216636eb3463ef3369fe6f9da3ca6b4b12db
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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