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County planners present updated renewable energy ordinance; commissioners ask about battery storage, setbacks and decommissioning
Summary
Stevens County staff summarized revisions to a draft renewable energy ordinance — clarifying 'battery energy storage systems', switching some limits from kilowatts to kilowatt‑hours, and refining decommissioning and setback language — and commissioners discussed thresholds, permits and potential PUC overlap.
County planning staff presented a revised draft renewable energy ordinance and a summary of changes the board requested after the second public hearing. Revisions emphasized clearer terminology for battery storage, adjusted measurement units for storage capacity, and added decommissioning requirements.
Staff said they replaced some references to kilowatts with kilowatt‑hours for battery storage capacity metrics and left a 20 kWh threshold as a baseline for single‑family homes while increasing the small business/multifamily threshold to about…
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