The Green Charter Township board of trustees adopted three newly crafted ordinances pertaining to wind and solar energy and energy storage during its meeting Jan. 14....The wind energy ordinances cover single wind energy conversion systems, which consist of a wind turbine designed to service the energy needs of only the property where the structure is located, as well as wind energy facilities consisting of one or more turbines designed to supply electricity to off-site customers. The tower shall not exceed a height of 80 feet; The blade diameter tip to tip shall not exceed 100 feet; The height of the overall WECS, with the balde in a vertical position, shall not exceed 130 feet above ground level; and The distance of the tower from all property lines shall be at least two times the WECS height....Wind turbine tip height may not exceed 400 feet, generate more than 48 decibels of sound and must be equipped with light mitigating technology.

The Green Charter Township board of trustees adopted three newly crafted ordinances pertaining to wind and solar energy and energy storage during its meeting Jan. 14. Utility scale solar energy systems, systems that are intended to distribute electricity to off-site uses, will be permitted as a special land use in the Agricultural/Forestry and Industrial zoning districts, according to the ordinance. They are subject to the requirements for special land use permitting and approval under the interim zoning ordinance and must also meet the following requirements: A maximum height of 18 feet above ground when the arrays are at full tilt; They must not cause noise in excess of 45 decibels as measured using LEQ-10 scale; They must ascribe to dark sky-friendly lighting solutions; They must be placed so that concentrated solar glare is not directed onto nearby properties or roadways;

A planning application for the replacement of a wind turbine on lands north of No 62 Tullydraw Road, Dungannon, has been refused as the said wind turbine would have been nearly twice the height of the existing one. The existing wind turbine is 42m in overall height, while the new turbine would have had an overall height of 75m. The planning officer who assessed the planning application wrote: “I consider the proposed turbine will have an unacceptable impact on visual amenity and landscape character of the area.

Members of a community group opposed to plans for a large wind farm project near Kamiak Butte in Whitman County are celebrating a decision this week by county commissioners to place a moratorium on new commercial wind turbines. Commissioners cited the need to update regulations on wind energy projects. Save the Palouse, a nonprofit organization formed in opposition to the project, posted news of the six-month moratorium on social media. “This is a huge step in the right direction, and we couldn’t have done it without all of your support,” a Facebook post read. “Thank you to everyone who has worked tirelessly to get us to this point.” ...In a Thursday interview with The Center Square, Rick McNannay, president of Save the Palouse, detailed the group’s objections to the wind farm. “One of the biggest issues we have is them saying there’s going to be this windfall of taxes coming in,” he explained. “That’s absolutely not the case. In the beginning, there is tax revenue, and then as the equipment gets older, that depletes, and citizens are expected to pick up the difference in those taxes because people become used to having that influx of money.”...This project is under development by Steelhead Americas out of Portland, Ore., the North American development arm of Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer.

Developers behind plans for a battery storage facility in Countesswells have lodged an appeal with the Scottish Government in a bid to overturn the local council’s refusal. Flexion Energy UK Storage’s application for the proposed 40MW facility would have seen 48 lithium-ion batteries installed within 12 shipping container-sized cabinets. However, the plan was thrown out by councillors in September, as they believed the industrial site would be “out of place” on land just off Countesswells Road. The plan also faced opposition from bosses at Robert Gordon’s College, due to the site’s close proximity to its playing fields. They feared a fire at the battery storage facility could put pupils at risk of “potentially toxic vapour, fumes or smoke”.

In a special meeting on Dec. 30, the Madison County Quorum Court imposed a 1-year moratorium on wind turbine development within the county.

A Labour-led council has knocked back plans for a solar farm on green belt land, tarnishing Ed Miliband’s ambitions to speed up a net zero upgrade across Britain. The development at Uswell House Farm near the village of Springwell was unanimously rejected by Sunderland City Council on the basis that it would harm the green belt and the agricultural land it is located on, despite advice from planning officers to grant consent. Sunderland’s planners had acknowledged that the proposal was an “inappropriate development within the green belt”, but said it should proceed as it would “contribute to meeting national net zero targets”, even if the harm “would be high both spatially and visually”.

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), the quasi-judicial apex sector regulator has rejected the tariff discovered in the first-ever grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) offered by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). SECI which is the renewable energy project tendering agency under the aegis of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy awarded this project in 2022.

A public inquiry is to be held after councillors rejected plans for a solar farm on greenbelt land. Boom Power applied for permission to install solar panels on 133 acres of land in Sitlington, near Wakefield. However, the plans were turned down by Wakefield Council in April, with officers describing the scheme as "inappropriate" and "harmful" to the rural setting. The firm submitted an appeal to the government's planning inspectorate following the rejection and a four-day hearing is due to take place at Wakefield Town Hall in March.

A week after enacting one of the state’s strictest ordinances governing commercial wind energy production, Washington County Supervisors directed staff not to accept any applications for turbine development...The issue has gained traction this year after turbines on a farm in Cedar County caught fire multiple times in 18 months, all due to lightning strikes. The damage left about 240 acres of farmland littered with fiberglass, dust and other debris that landowners said made the corn there unfit for human or animal consumption.