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  "retrievedAt": "2026-11-04T20:37:42.598Z",
  "featureCount": 1256,
  "plantCount": 1049,
  "remoteCount": 207,
  "counts": {
    "solar": 138,
    "hydro": 555,
    "wind": 241,
    "biomass": 111,
    "tidal": 1,
    "pumped": 1,
    "other": 2,
    "remote-fossil": 143,
    "remote-hydro": 32,
    "remote-grid": 32
  },
  "plantPeriods": [
    "2000",
    "2009",
    "201003",
    "2012",
    "201203",
    "201206",
    "201207",
    "201302",
    "201304",
    "201312",
    "2014",
    "201401",
    "201407",
    "201409",
    "201506",
    "201511",
    "201512",
    "2016",
    "201601",
    "201604",
    "201607",
    "201612",
    "201703",
    "201704",
    "201707",
    "201708"
  ],
  "vintageNote": "Plant locations are the NRCan NACEI file (reference periods 2000–201708, mostly August 2017). That is the latest geospatial plant file NRCan publishes. It is not a current-year capacity census. Remote communities: 2025 Remote Communities Energy Database service answered.",
  "mappedSources": [
    {
      "id": "nacei-renewable-plants-1mw",
      "title": "Renewable Energy Power Plants, 1 MW or more",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada (NACEI)",
      "datasetUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/490db619-ab58-4a2a-a245-2376ce1840de",
      "serviceUrl": "https://geoappext.nrcan.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/NACEI/energy_infrastructure_of_north_america_en/MapServer/28",
      "licence": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
      "licenceUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
    },
    {
      "id": "nrcan-rced-2025",
      "title": "Remote Communities Energy Database (2025)",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "datasetUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/1d912ea1-919b-449d-8e8b-eb6a2313a401",
      "serviceUrl": "https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/remote_communities_2025_en/MapServer/0",
      "licence": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
      "licenceUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
    }
  ],
  "remoteFallback": false,
  "energyAtlas": "public/data/energy-atlas.json",
  "recordedNotMapped": [
    {
      "id": "cer-renewables",
      "title": "Canada Energy Regulator — Renewable energy and Canada’s Energy Future",
      "publisher": "Canada Energy Regulator",
      "url": "https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/market-snapshots/index.html",
      "why": "Shown in the layer panel as a source link. Market projections have no coordinates, so nothing is pinned."
    },
    {
      "id": "nrcan-pv-municipalities",
      "title": "Photovoltaic potential by municipality",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "datasetUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8b434ac7-aedb-4698-90df-ba77424a551f",
      "url": "https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/Solar-energy_Energie-solaire/photovoltaic_canada_photovoltaique/municip_potentiel-potential.csv",
      "why": "Municipality names have no coordinates. The map shades each province by the mean annual latitude-tilt kWh/kWp. Towns are not geocoded."
    },
    {
      "id": "nacei-missing-rasters",
      "title": "Wind-speed and geothermal-gradient rasters",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "datasetUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/aae6619f-f9f3-435d-bc32-42decd58b674",
      "url": "https://geoappext.nrcan.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/NACEI/energy_resource_potential_of_north_america_en/MapServer",
      "why": "The live service publishes solar GHI (layer 0) and solar DNI (layer 1) only. Those two are painted under the pins. Wind speed and geothermal gradient are not in the service, so they are not invented."
    },
    {
      "id": "nacei-line-corridors",
      "title": "Transmission and pipeline corridors",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "datasetUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/aae6619f-f9f3-435d-bc32-42decd58b674",
      "url": "https://geoappext.nrcan.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/NACEI/energy_infrastructure_of_north_america_en/MapServer/1",
      "why": "Canada rows on layers 1, 2 and 3 are Point geometries. Those points are painted. The route between From and To is not in the file, so it is not drawn."
    },
    {
      "id": "nrcan-hydrokinetic-rings",
      "title": "Hydrokinetic polygon rings",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "datasetUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/b102925f-aa0c-41ad-9cc6-979072fc4871",
      "url": "https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/hydrokinetic_assessment_using_SAR_for_Diesel_communities_en/MapServer",
      "why": "The query endpoint returns attributes and no rings. Open water and possible water polygons are painted from the official shapefile. Ice is not painted. The community coordinate is not a second pin. Nine thin polygons were restored from the original rings after simplify collapsed them."
    },
    {
      "id": "geothermal-plants-canada",
      "title": "Canadian geothermal plants of 1 MW or more",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "datasetUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/490db619-ab58-4a2a-a245-2376ce1840de",
      "url": "https://geoappext.nrcan.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/NACEI/energy_infrastructure_of_north_america_en/MapServer/28",
      "why": "Count is 0 in the plant file. The toggle stays, with (0). No guessed sites. Alberta’s 2025 capacity table includes 6 MW geothermal; that is a province total, not a pin."
    }
  ],
  "licence": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
  "licenceUrl": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
}