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DEEP urges local engagement, stops short of backing municipal takeover of small solar approvals
Summary
Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection told the Energy and Technology Committee it supports improved municipal engagement and data on nonresidential solar siting and tax impacts, but it does not back shifting approval authority for smaller projects away from local land‑use commissions.
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection told lawmakers it supports more municipal consultation and more analysis of tax and siting incentives for smaller solar projects — but stopped short of supporting new statewide approval powers for municipalities.
Katie Dykes, commissioner of DEEP, told the committee DEEP had provided written testimony supporting a study of “the tax implications of the non Residential Energy Solutions Program.” She also said, bluntly, that “DEEP respectfully is not in support of this bill,” referring to legislation that would change which municipal bodies can weigh in on non‑siting‑council solar projects.
Why it matters: municipalities, land‑use commissions and developers are clashing over where community…
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