NYSERDA 2022 Soils Data for use in the Large-Scale Renewables and NY-Sun Programs

THE NYSERDA 2022 SOILS DATA IS TO BE USED FOR NYSERDA’S PROCUREMENT PURPOSES OR THE NY-SUN PROGRAM AND IS NOT INTENDED TO REPRESENT ACTUAL IN SITU SOIL CONDITIONS.

NYSERDA has launched the Renewable Energy Standard (RES) request for proposals, RESRFP22-1, to continue accelerating progress towards New York’s goal of generating 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Through RESRFP22-1, NYSERDA seeks to procure approximately 4.5 million Tier 1 eligible Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) from eligible facilities that enter commercial operation on or after January 1, 2015 and on or before November 30, 2024, unless extended to November 30, 2027.

In order to facilitate the protection of agricultural lands, developers participating in RESRFP22-1 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 2022 Soils Data was created by converting the 2022 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 2022 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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纽约州能源研究与开发局（NYSERDA）2022年土壤数据旨在用于NYSERDA的采购目的或NY-SUN项目，并不旨在代表实际现场土壤条件。NYSERDA已启动可再生能源标准（RES）提案邀请（RESRFP22-1），以继续加快实现纽约州到2030年从可再生能源中产生70%电力目标。通过RESRFP22-1，NYSERDA寻求采购约450万张一级合格的可再生能源证书（RECs），这些证书来自2015年1月1日或之后、2024年11月30日或之前投入商业运营的合格设施，除非延期至2027年11月30日。为促进农业土地的保护，参与RESRFP22-1或NY-Sun项目的开发商可能需要根据太阳能项目设施区域与农业区域以及纽约州高生产力的农业土壤（矿物土壤组分类1至4，MSG 1-4）的重叠程度，向指定基金支付农业缓解费用。此缓解方法旨在阻止太阳能项目在MSG 1-4区域选址。此外，此缓解方法旨在鼓励在项目现场保持农业生产力。如果提案人无法避免或最小化对MSG 1-4的影响，将导致向由NYSERDA管理的基金支付费用。农业缓解费用资金的发放将根据与纽约州农业和市场部（AGM）的协商来确定，以支持持续的区域性农业实践和/或土壤保护倡议。该数据集包含来自多个来源的土壤数据的组合，旨在服务于NYSERDA的大规模可再生能源和NY-Sun项目的参与者。NYSERDA 2022年土壤数据是通过将AGM维护的2022年纽约州农业土地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来创建的，使用户能够将土壤与自然资源保护服务局（NRCS）的SSURGO土壤数据库联系起来，从而实现地理表示。当NYSERDA 2022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进行映射。应使用SSURGO数据库的最新版本以获得最准确的连接。数据每年从NRCS和AGM更新，然而，NYSERDA将不会更新此数据集，并将保持其完整性以供未来参考。NYSERDA计划每年为未来的采购创建新的土壤数据集。纽约州能源研究与开发局（NYSERDA）提供客观信息和分析、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项目的信息，请访问nyserda.ny.gov或关注我们的X、Facebook、YouTube或Instagram。