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Commissioners raise alarm about state energy policy and septic regulations, warn of land-use conflicts
Summary
During open discussion, commissioners criticized state-level energy and Public Service Commission decisions, warned solar and battery projects are being sited on prime farmland that could be used for housing, and scheduled a Jan. 16 meeting with Maryland Department of the Environment staff on septic-system issues affecting rural housing.
Commissioners used the open-discussion portion of the Dec. 16 meeting to air concerns about state energy policy, battery-storage safety, solar siting on prime farmland and regulatory burdens on on-site sewage disposal systems that they said hinder housing development.
One commissioner described recent sessions at Mako week on battery energy storage as offering little progress on safety and called the state-level process a "clown show,"…
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