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Planning board recommends conditional zoning for 80 MW Stokes Town solar project after lengthy public comments
Summary
The Pitt County Planning Board recommended approval of a conditional rezoning for Stokes Town Solar, a proposed 80 MW solar farm paired with 30 MW of battery storage on about 1,049 acres east of Grifton, after presentations by the developer and extensive public comment.
The Pitt County Planning Board recommended approval of a conditional rural-agricultural rezoning for the proposed Stokes Town Solar project — an 80-megawatt solar-generation system paired with a 30-megawatt battery energy storage system — after an extended presentation by the developer and substantial public comment both for and against the project.
Hexagon Energy representatives said the project would be an approximately 1,049-acre rezoning area east of Grifton encompassing 15 parcels (eight property owners). Chad Issick, zoning and land-use counsel for Hexagon, told the board the fenced equipment area would be under 400 acres and about 116 acres would contain actual solar panels. He summarized technical studies the applicant obtained and said the company had worked nearly a year with staff and the community to reduce the proposal from roughly 30 parcels to 15.
“This project, if approved, would develop an 80, megawatt solar energy…
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