NYSERDA 2024 Soils Data for use in the Large-Scale Renewables and NY-Sun Programs

THE NYSERDA 2024 SOILS DATA IS TO BE USED FOR NYSERDA’S RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD (RES) REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) ISSUED AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THIS DATA OR THE NY-SUN PROGRAM AND IS NOT INTENDED TO REPRESENT ACTUAL IN SITU SOIL CONDITIONS.

In order to facilitate the protection of agricultural lands, developers participating in RESRFPs or the NY-Sun program may be responsible for making an agricultural mitigation payment to a designated fund based on the extent to which the solar project’s facility area overlaps with an Agricultural District and New York’s highly productive agricultural soils, identified as Mineral Soil Groups (MSG) classifications 1 through 4 (MSG 1-4). This mitigation approach is designed to discourage solar projects from siting on MSG 1-4. Furthermore, this mitigation approach is designed to encourage retaining agricultural productivity on the project site. Instances where Proposers cannot avoid or minimize impacts on MSG 1-4 will result in a payment to a fund administered by NYSERDA. Disbursement of collected agricultural mitigation payment funds will be informed by consultation with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (AGM) to support ongoing regional agricultural practices and/or soil conservation initiatives.

This dataset contains a combination of soils data from multiple sources to serve participants of NYSERDA’s Large-Scale Renewable and NY-Sun programs. The NYSERDA 2024 Soils Data was created by converting the 2024 New York State Agricultural Land Classification master list of soils maintained by AGM to a tabular form and providing a corresponding unique identifier for each listed soil that enables the user to link the soils to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) SSURGO soils database, allowing for a geographical representation. When the NYSERDA 2024 Soils Data is joined with spatial data from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) SSURGO soils database, the corresponding soil unit can be mapped in a geographic information system software. The latest version of the SSURGO database should be used to get the most accurate join. Data is updated yearly from both NRCS and from AGM, however, NYSERDA will not update this dataset and it will remain intact for future reference. NYSERDA intends on creating new soils datasets for future procurements on an annual basis.

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NYSERDA 2024 年土壤数据旨在用于该数据公布或 NY-SUN 项目发布后的 NYSERDA 可再生能源标准（RES）提案邀请书（RFP），且不旨在代表实际的现场土壤条件。为促进农业用地的保护，参与 RESRFP 或 NY-Sun 项目的开发者可能需根据太阳能项目设施区域与农业区以及纽约州高生产力的农业土壤（被称为矿物土壤组（MSG）分类 1 至 4（MSG 1-4））重叠的程度，向指定的基金支付农业缓解费用。此缓解方法旨在阻止太阳能项目选址于 MSG 1-4。此外，此缓解方法旨在鼓励在项目现场保持农业生产力。当提案人无法避免或最小化对 MSG 1-4 的影响时，将向由 NYSERDA 管理的基金支付费用。农业缓解费用资金的发放将依据与纽约州农业和市场部（AGM）的协商，以支持持续的区域性农业实践和/或土壤保护计划。该数据集结合了来自多个来源的土壤数据，旨在服务于 NYSERDA 的大型可再生能源和 NY-Sun 项目参与者。NYSERDA 2024 年土壤数据是通过将 AGM 维护的 2024 年纽约州农业土地利用分类土壤主列表转换为表格形式，并为每个列出的土壤提供相应的唯一标识符而创建的，使用户能够将土壤与自然资源保护服务（NRCS）的 SSURGO 土壤数据库链接，从而实现地理表示。当 NYSERDA 2024 年土壤数据与 NRCS SSURGO 土壤数据库的空间数据相结合时，相应的土壤单元可以在地理信息系统软件中绘制。应使用最新版本的 SSURGO 数据库以获得最准确的连接。数据每年从 NRCS 和 AGM 更新，但 NYSERDA 不会更新此数据集，它将保持完整以供未来参考。NYSERDA 计划每年根据未来采购创建新的土壤数据集。纽约州能源研究和发展局（NYSERDA）提供客观的信息和分析、创新项目、技术专长和支持，以帮助纽约人提高能源效率、节省金钱、使用可再生能源并减少对化石燃料的依赖。欲了解更多关于 NYSERDA 的项目信息，请访问 nyserda.ny.gov 或关注我们在 X、Facebook、YouTube 或 Instagram 上的动态。