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The Renewable Energy Approval Projects (REA Projects) data contains project type, project information, approval status and project county, district or region for projects subject to a Renewable Energy Approval under O. Reg. 359/09. Current REA Projects data is available on the Access Environment webpage and historic data from 2010-2025 is available for download on the Data Catalogue below. The REA Projects data can be downloaded from the Access Environment webpage at: https://www.ontario.ca/page/list-environmental-approvals-and-registrations. Please search for ‘REA-RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROVAL’ approval type to download the CSV files.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca)	HTML		https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/9d3cf9bc-4aad-4177-9698-95f79349b551
Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca/fr)	HTML		https://data.ontario.ca/fr/dataset/9d3cf9bc-4aad-4177-9698-95f79349b551
Archived - Renewable energy projects	CSV		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/1Air/rea.csv
Renewable energy projects	CSV		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/4Other/REA/Renewable_Energy_Projects_2025_EN.csv
Renewable energy projects	CSV		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/4Other/REA/Renewable_Energy_Projects_2025_FR.csv
Metadata Record	PDF		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/metadata/opendata/rea_metadata.pdf

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