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Renewable Energy in California Deserts: New Plan to Guide Smart and Sustainable Development (Union of Concerned Scientists)

DRECP project boundary.
(Courtesy California Energy Commission)

A draft of the long-awaited Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) will be released any day now.

The DRECP is intended to provide a landscape-level assessment of the most appropriate and inappropriate places to build large-scale renewable energy projects in the California portions of the Mojave and Colorado deserts - including Known Geothermal Resource Areas around the Salton Sea - to minimize impacts on wildlife habitats and desert ecosystems.

By identifying the most suitable locations for renewable energy projects, the DRECP will bring more efficiency and certainty to the project permitting process and help us meet our clean energy goals.

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