Citizen opposition successfully prevented BOS from passing a pro-developer ordinance and have also kept a project from proceeding; CfRS supported their effort

At a packed meeting conducted inside the third floor courtroom to accommodate the overflow crowd, the Grundy County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to implement a moratorium on wind farm construction in response to an Invenergy proposal to construct a project in the northeast part of the county.

A renewable energy company is once again proposing new wind turbines in Eau Claire County. This time, the proposal is in the Town of Lincoln, but the town passed a six month moratorium on wind farm development Monday. The moratorium is in response to a proposal by RWE Renewables Americas to create a windfarm in the town, just south of Highway 12. A couple dozen residents voiced their support of the moratorium at Monday's meeting, some citing concerns about the negative impact turbines could have on the community.

Maroon Solar (Strata Solar) submitted a revised application and phased its original project to three 300-acre parcels to try to accommodate the county's limit of 300 acres for solar on ag land. Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to deny. Opposition led by Citizens for Responsible Solar

According to the Sabin Center of Climate Change Law at Columbia University, in Wisconsin, four towns in Dane County (Deerfield, Dunn, Springfield, and Westport), have policies to restrict solar from agricultural land. Language from the Springfield ordinance: Whereas, solar fields often occupy a large amount of land area, and have proven to be disruptive of land use planning, agricultural activity, local economies and aesthetic values; and Whereas, on March 1, 2021 the Plan Commission recommended Town Board Approval of the comprehensive plan amendments via Plan Commission Resolution 2021-01 and...The Town seeks to minimize these types of conflicts in the future by discouraging dense residential and other non-farm developing in Agricultural Preservation Areas...Given these concerns, the following are the Town's policies relative to the siting of solar fields...Do not site on Group 1 or II agricultural soils.

Fauquier County planning officials rejected an application for a 40-acre solar farm in Bealeton last Thursday, signaling disapproval for projects that shrink the county’s supply of agricultural land. If the project were to make it to final approval, it would be the first to be built in the county since Dominion Energy opened a 125-acre facility near Remington in 2017. The decision may not bode well for another solar project designed for 20 acres off Meetze Road that is further back in the approval pipeline.

The Worth County Board of Supervisors passed a "temporary moratorium" on commercial wind projects in the county on Monday, though it's unclear what effect it will have on an ongoing project.

Wind turbines appear headed for a townwide ban in Foster after the Planning Board voted 5-1 to change the green energy ordinance to no longer allow the alternate energy sources in town last Wednesday.

Responding to years of complaints from neighbors that they can’t sleep at night because of the noise from the Scituate Wind turbine, the Scituate Select Board ordered the operation shut down at night — from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. — from mid-May to mid-October....Scituate Wind had previously shut off the turbine at night during the summer under specific wind conditions, but neighbors said the noise was still robbing them of sleep and health.

The township board voted 4-0 on Monday night to rescind Ordinance 24, which it had approved last November; to rescind approval of a ballot question on the ordinance (making a planned voter referendum on the ordinance later this year now unnecessary); and to place a six-month moratorium on any wind activity in the township.