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Dickenson County adopts solar ordinance, sets framework for large projects
Summary
The Dickenson County Board of Supervisors adopted a new solar ordinance to set taxation and project-approval rules for large utility-scale solar. The ordinance requires a site-specific revenue-sharing and decommissioning agreement for qualifying projects; residential rooftop systems remain under normal building-permit rules.
The Dickenson County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a solar ordinance intended to govern taxation and project requirements for large-scale solar in the county.
County staff introduced the ordinance at a public hearing, saying the county had no current solar ordinance and that the draft broadly follows Virginia law on maximum revenue per megawatt and requires a project-specific revenue-sharing ("siding") agreement to address revenue distribution, operations and…
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