The Gage County Board Wednesday approved final amended regulations on wind energy companies that some officials say prevents any further wind development in the county...The new regulations establish setbacks from non-participating property owners as great as three miles. Previously, the board had approved a setback of one mile, at the request of rural homeowners.

Rather than risk denial of a rezoning request for properties near Princeton as proposed solar farm sites, Arevon Energy Inc. and Tenaska are revising their proposed site plan for the Gibson Solar project. Princeton Planning Commission last month voted not to recommend the site plan recommended to them, after hearing a room full of neighbors voice concerns that the project will stunt housing development and erode property values.

Neighbors in the Gold Hill area of Rowan County worked for months to oppose the construction of a nearly 575-acre solar farm, and on Monday night, those efforts paid off when the Rowan County Commission voted to deny a rezoning request for the developers of the proposed complex. During a four-hour-long meeting and public hearing on Monday night, commissioners voted 4-1 to oppose the request.

Executive Director of Renew Missouri James Owen said the proposed regulations act more as a ban on wind development and generation. For example, Owen said the regulations limit the height of wind turbines to under 375 feet. Owen noted there are no wind turbines in the country that are that short and said wind turbines should be at least 400 feet tall. He also took issue with the setback rule. “When you look at a provision of it that says you cannot have a wind turbine sited within 1,750 feet away from a property line, not a house, not a residence but from a property line. If you look at a map of Boone County, there is nowhere where more than one turbine can be [built] anywhere," Owen said.

The Dinwiddie Board of Supervisors disapproved a rezoning agreement for a solar farm preventing what would have been a subsequent siting agreement and a conditional use permit for the project from also being approved. Lily Pond Solar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energix US, is proposing to design, construct and operate an 80-megawatt alternating current solar photovoltaic ground mounted electric generation project.

After more than 10 hours of public comments, Shasta County supervisors voted 4-1 to deny an appeal by a company that wants to build a controversial wind farm in the Intermountain area just west of Burney. Tuesday night’s denial upholds the June 22 unanimous decision by the Shasta County Planning Commission to reject the use permit for the Fountain Wind project. Commissioners heard nearly 10 hours of public testimony before their vote.

Imposed a 90-day moratorium on new wind projects in the county.

A citizen commission voted against a permit that would have allowed a solar energy developer to install a community solar garden just west of the Roswell city limits if a state regulation group awarded a project to the company in 2022. Members of the Roswell-Chaves County Extraterritorial Zoning (ETZ) Commission had a slew of questions Tuesday night for the representatives of Chaves Solar 2 LLC, a division of Pivot Energy New Mexico LLC and Pivot Energy Inc. of Denver, Colorado, regarding a type of project that is new to the state and the area, made possible by the Community Solar Act signed into law in April...The permit and proposed project had resulted in three protest letters to the commission from nearby property owners, as well as comments from three additional property owners who voiced opposition during the Tuesday meeting. Some of the speakers said they were representing other property owners as well. Most opponents expressed the idea that they did not want a solar project in the rural-suburban district, near their homes or small farms or orchards...After hearing from the public and the company representatives, Commissioners Mona Kirk, Matthew Bristol and Neil Roe voted yes on granting a special use permit, while Rita Kane-Doerhoefer, Michael Lackey, Larry Connolly and Commission Chair Royce “Pancho” Maples voted no.

The Elkhart County commissioners all said no to plans for developing a large, new solar energy project near Millersburg. The commissioners decided to deny the request by Savion to rezone agricultural land with a development plan for the project. The unanimous vote Monday overrode support by the Elkhart County Council, the county Plan Commission and the Economic Development Corp.The commissioners sided with neighbors who opposed the proposal for several reasons, including potential decreases in property values and the visual effect of seeing solar arrays from their homes. The commissioners sided with neighbors who opposed the proposal for several reasons, including potential decreases in property values and the visual effect of seeing solar arrays from their homes. “While there are the rights of the landowners to consider who wish to lease the land, there are also the rights of the adjacent property owners to contemplate,” Commissioner Brad Rogers said during the meeting....Kansas City-based Savion had planned to invest $120 million to install a network of solar panel arrays covering about 850 acres on agricultural land leased from two sets of property owners. The sites, in the area of Ind. 13, C.R. 146, C.R. 148 and C.R. 43, are located near American Electric Power transmission lines. The project was expected to generate up to 150 megawatts of energy, with the production intended to pool into the electrical grid owned by PJM.

The Mecklenburg County Planning Commission rejected Longroad Energy’s request to build an 800-acre utility-scale solar project on farmland near Chase City Friday.