Tools

Siting Team has a few thoughts/questions/concerns about the 'Land Cover' data layer: Utilization of single base layer: While the selected base layer - maintained by the the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium - is useful, it is in eff...

Highlighting cost sharing opportunity/liability early in the stage will reduce soft cost and uninformed applications.

Idea is to create a new analysis GIS tool to make quick calculations of mineral soil groups 1-4 within an uploaded facility area. This would be applicable to large-scale solar development.

In the queued DERs data table, it is unclear how “Planned Install Date” is calculated/obtained. No explanation of this is given in documentation and does not correspond to any dates given in PSC SIR data for DER projects

In the column header, should specify units in “DER Nameplate Rating” in table of interconnected and enqueued DER projects. If new users are supposed to understand this, don't assume they know the units of the DER projects (which appears to be kW)

Information on when the data was last refreshed will inform customers to better judge the data and cross reference with other resources as needed. Can be challenging to show different refresh dates for DER conencted & queued & feeder HC &a...

If the Feeder ID has no Interconnection Location or planned install date it would provide more clarity. The user would be able to click on the DER ID and it would take you to that location on the map with the location.

Who would benefit? Researchers What is the status quo or problem to be solved? The Net Metering plan chosen is not shown for planned and installed DER What impact would it make? Understand plan choice and DER adoption How should it work? Compensat...

The SIR database is an authoritative source of information on distributed generation deployments across NY state. The addition and maintenance of this data set would integrate nicely with the hosting capacity maps and add a time dimension to DER c...

Due to the sensitivity of this data and that CAFRI hasn't published it yet, it would need to be protected through a permission feature. Able to discuss and strategize the most efficient way to achieve this.