Retire coal plants while minimizing costs, health damage and maximizing jobs
The map has many layers as shown in image below. A short description of the layers:
- Coal plant locations> these red dots are locations of coal plants under analysis.
- Eligible RE sites> these grey circles point to all eligible RE sites that are eligible for RE investments. These are under the threshold distance from a nearby coal plant.
- Sites w/ Investments: These RE sites were chosen by the model for investments.
- Sites online 2020: These RE sites were online RE sites in 2020, and are available to produce electricity.
- 0+ MW capacity: these sites are those with >0 MW capacity installed. IDEALLY these should be the same as sites online or sites with investment.
- RE Gen Magnitude: The size of circles denotes the magnitude of RE generation from that site.
If a RE site is online/has investment/has capacity/or is generating electricity but is not an eligible RE site, then it is an ineligible site.