The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said it will develop an updated plan to guide solar energy development on public lands through an updated Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS).
The BLM is also initiating reviews of three proposed solar projects in Arizona that could add 1 GW of capacity to the grid.
In 2012, the BLM and the Department of Energy issued a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development in six southwestern states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
