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Board extends approval for battery-storage project to September 2029 after developers cite MISO delays
Summary
The LaPorte County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to extend a previously approved special-exception for a Monroe Power/Leeward Renewable battery-storage project through Sept. 2029 after the applicant said regional grid-operator delays have pushed the project’s power-on and construction schedule several years.
The LaPorte County Board of Zoning Appeals on Sept. 16 approved an extension through Sept. 2029 for a previously granted special-exception allowing a battery-storage facility proposed by Monroe Power LLC and Leeward Renewable Energy LLC.
Attorney Anthony Novak, representing the applicants, told the board the project has been delayed by the regional transmission operator MISO’s interconnection process. "MISO...the schedule has just gone completely out of whack," Novak said, adding that the project’s application was submitted in 2019 and that multiple rounds of study and GIA (generator interconnection agreement) revisions have pushed the power-delivery date well into the next multi-year period.
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