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Title:

Solar Power Initiative Using Caltrans Right-of-Way: Final Research Report

Report No.:

CA20-3177

Authors:

Sarah Kurtz [and six others]

Published:

2020

Sacramento, California

California. Department of Transportation. Division of Research and Innovation

Type:

Online document

1 PDF (317 pages)

Online Access:

https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/rese...

Access Note:

15.2 MB

Summary

Provide guidance to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) on the installation of utility-scale solar electrical generation facilities in its right-of-way. Explores the current rules, regulations, and policies from regulatory agencies external to Caltrans and California utilities that affect Caltrans’ ability to install solar within its right-of-way. Determines best practices that other state departments of transportation have developed based on their experience with the deployment of solar generation facilities within their right-of-way. Outlines best practices of how to develop solar generation sites within Caltrans right-of-way. Summarizes design-build-own strategies that Caltrans could use as part of a public-private partnership to finance the installation and/or maintenance of solar sites within the Caltrans right-of-way.

Publ. Place

Sacramento, California

Contents

Includes: Planned DOT Solar Deployments in the Right-of-Way [Texas DOT]

Notes

"December 2020"

Print Copy

Collection:

States (CA) Online Only

Call Number:

2020-3177

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Topics

Best practices
Policy, legislation and regulation
Public private partnerships
Right of way (Land)
Solar power generation

Places

California

Related to

• TxDOT Research Project 0-6634, "Potential Value Extraction from TxDOT’s Right of Way and Other Property Assets." https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/project=6634

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