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Effingham County Board approves solar and wind ordinances, sets $5,000-per-megawatt application fee
Summary
At its June meeting the Effingham County Board approved ordinances governing solar and wind energy conversion systems and adopted an amendment setting an application fee of $5,000 per proposed megawatt of nameplate capacity; the items were approved as part of the consent agenda.
At its June meeting the Effingham County Board approved ordinances to govern solar and wind energy conversion systems and adopted an amendment that sets an application fee of $5,000 per proposed megawatt of nameplate capacity.
The ordinances and the fee amendment were listed on the consent agenda and were approved as part of the motion to adopt the remaining consent items. Board Member Sandy Rich moved to approve the consent agenda; Jeremy Daters seconded the motion. The roll-call vote returned in favor of the motion.
Board Chair read the consent items into the record, including "approval of an ordinance governing solar energy conversion systems and approval of ordinance governing wind energy conversion systems with amendment increasing application fee equal to 5,000 per megawatt of proposed nameplate capacity." Because the ordinances were part of the consent agenda, the board did not take separate debate on the measures before approving them.
The meeting record does not include implementation details, a timeline for permitting, or how the fee revenue will be used; those details were not specified at the meeting.
