Base Exclusions (Solar)

Th e base exclusions form the fundamental exclusion set that the additional criteria of the Core and SB 100 Terrestrial Climate Resilience Study screens are added to . The merged footprints of these primary two layers are modified by the Bureau of L and Management Land Use Plan Amendment (LUPA) development focus areas (DFAs) and variance process lands, and the general public lands in the DRECP .

These areas allow for renewable energy applications and are therefore exempt (erased) from the base exclusions layer , even if the protected area layer or techno-economic exclusion layer identified the area as an exclusion . The DFAs are partitioned by technology type so that only the DFAs that allow solar energy are applied in this modification . The area of California remaining after removing the base exclusions is called the resource potential basema p .