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U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances

DOI 10.25984/1873867

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A machine readable collection of documented solar siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled based on a locality-by-locality review zoning ordinances after completing an initial review of scholarly legal articles. The citations for each ordinance are included in the Solar Ordinances spreadsheet resource below.

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TY  - DATA
AB  - A machine readable collection of documented solar siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled based on a locality-by-locality review zoning ordinances after completing an initial review of scholarly legal articles. The citations for each ordinance are included in the Solar Ordinances spreadsheet resource below.
AU  - Lopez, Anthony
A2  - Levine, Aaron
A3  - Carey, Jesse
A4  - Mangan, Cailee
DB  - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP  - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO  - 10.25984/1873867
KW  - energy
KW  - power
KW  - solar
KW  - siting
KW  - ordinances
KW  - local
KW  - law
KW  - policy
KW  - incentives
KW  - legislation
KW  - regulations
KW  - United States
KW  - legal
KW  - SitingLab
KW  - pv
KW  - solar pv
KW  - exclusion
KW  - regulatory constraint
LA  - English
DA  - 2022/06/30
PY  - 2022
PB  - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1  - U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances
UR  - https://doi.org/10.25984/1873867
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Lopez, Anthony, et al. U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 30 June, 2022, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/1873867.

Lopez, A., Levine, A., Carey, J., & Mangan, C. (2022). U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.25984/1873867

Lopez, Anthony, Aaron Levine, Jesse Carey, and Cailee Mangan. U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, June, 30, 2022.  Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/1873867

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title = {U.S. Solar Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances},
author = {Lopez, Anthony and Levine, Aaron and Carey, Jesse and Mangan, Cailee},
abstractNote = {A machine readable collection of documented solar siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled based on a locality-by-locality review zoning ordinances after completing an initial review of scholarly legal articles. The citations for each ordinance are included in the Solar Ordinances spreadsheet resource below.},
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year = {2022},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://doi.org/10.25984/1873867},
note = {Accessed: 2025-05-29},
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Data from Jun 30, 2022

Last updated Apr 28, 2025

Submitted Jun 23, 2022