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St. Clair County adopts health-driven rules for solar and battery storage; ordinance takes immediate effect
Summary
The St. Clair County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt a health-department–led ordinance setting noise, visual and decommissioning standards for large solar and battery energy storage facilities; the rules include a 45-decibel limit at property lines and provisions to require full removal and bonding for abandoned sites.
St. Clair County commissioners voted unanimously to adopt the St. Clair County Solar Energy and Battery Energy Storage Facilities Regulation, a health-department–authored ordinance that sets noise, visual and decommissioning standards for large solar and battery projects, and requested it take effect immediately.
The measure, introduced for final action by county counsel and carried by a motion to approve the resolution, drew hours of public comment earlier in the meeting from residents and health professionals who urged the county to impose stricter protections on projects sited near homes and waterways.
County Health Department Director Liz King and the health department’s researcher, Dr. Nevin, drafted the regulation after public meetings and a…
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