The Lee County Board extended its moratorium on solar, wind and battery storage projects for another three months while a review to regulate such developments continues.

After 10 months of debate and public hearings, the Middleburgh Town Board approved changes to its zoning ordinance on May 12 that will prohibit large-scale wind and solar utility projects.

After 10 months of debate and public hearings, the Middleburgh Town Board approved changes to its zoning ordinance on May 12 that will prohibit large-scale wind and solar utility projects.

Kittitas County commissioners’ decision to place a moratorium on large-scale solar panel projects felt justified given rumored projects in the works and lack of consensus on placing these facilities in the rural countryside.

A 20-second ovation followed Crawford County commissioners' vote to restrict industrial wind farm development in all unincorporated areas of the county, with members of Crawford Anti-Wind rising to their feet. The resolution, passed 2-1 at a regular meeting Thursday, effectively bars construction of Honey Creek Wind, Apex Clean Energy's planned 300-megawatt industrial wind farm — at least for now. The resolution, passed 2-1 at a regular meeting Thursday, effectively bars construction of Honey Creek Wind, Apex Clean Energy's planned 300-megawatt industrial wind farm — at least for now. Commissioners Tim Ley and Larry Schmidt voted in favor of the resolution; Doug Wisenauer voted against it. Senate Bill 52, which became law in July, significantly changed Ohio's laws governing siting requirements for industrial solar and wind projects, giving county commissioners the ability to prevent Ohio Power Siting Board certification of certain wind and solar facilities.

Commercial renewable-energy facilities will not be allowed in Franklin County, based on a County Commission decision to deny them. Two energy-development companies had expressed interest in establishing solar farms in Franklin County, and the Regional Planning Commission was fielding input on whether to change zoning regulations that would have allowed them. However, recent opposition about the potential impacts stemming from large-scale solar farms covering several hundred acres prompted the commission to take action Monday that prohibits such large commercial operations. The commission’s vote included 15 against allowing commercial renewable-energy facilities, none in favor, and Commissioner Helen Stapleton abstaining from voting on the issue....The resolution says that county commissioners are concerned about the ramifications of commercial renewable-energy-production facilities attempting to locate in Franklin County. The list includes solar and wind farms that “consume large amounts of arable or potentially industrial or residential land, and the long-term effects of such facilities are still undetermined.”

Commercial renewable-energy facilities will not be allowed in Franklin County, based on a County Commission decision to deny them. Two energy-development companies had expressed interest in establishing solar farms in Franklin County, and the Regional Planning Commission was fielding input on whether to change zoning regulations that would have allowed them. However, recent opposition about the potential impacts stemming from large-scale solar farms covering several hundred acres prompted the commission to take action Monday that prohibits such large commercial operations. The commission’s vote included 15 against allowing commercial renewable-energy facilities, none in favor, and Commissioner Helen Stapleton abstaining from voting on the issue....The resolution says that county commissioners are concerned about the ramifications of commercial renewable-energy-production facilities attempting to locate in Franklin County. The list includes solar and wind farms that “consume large amounts of arable or potentially industrial or residential land, and the long-term effects of such facilities are still undetermined.”

Cranston-based Green Development's five new solar farm project defeated after nearly 8-hour hearing...A proposal for five new solar farms in has been defeated in Johnston. On Thursday, April 28, hundreds of Johnston residents gathered at the Johnston Senior Center to participate in a public hearing over Cranston-based Green Development’s proposal to build five solar fields on more than 324 acres of mostly wooded land in a residential zone of the town’s western end.

The City of New Bloomfield, Missouri, midway between St. Louis and Kansas City, has voted 5 to 0 to set new rules regulating utility scale solar.power projects. The rules appear to speifically target the Guthrie Solar Project being developed by NextEra. These rules deine the project, in its current form, as a nuisance to the town.

There are many wind turbines throughout Gratiot County. Last Thursday, however, the Fulton Township Board put the brakes on a proposal to put a dozen of them in their collective backyard. Culimninating a nearly four-hour meeting, the board voted unanimously (4-0) to turn down the previous recommendation from the township's planning commission to move forward with the Heartland Wind Project.