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Lunenburg planning commission unanimously recommends approval of 60 MW Wheelhouse Solar with conditions
Summary
The Lunenburg County Planning Commission voted unanimously May 16 to recommend the Board of Supervisors approve Wheelhouse Solar’s 60 MW conditional-use permit for a 676-acre, nine-parcel array, attaching conditions on setbacks, erosion control, decommissioning and broadband coordination.
The Lunenburg County Planning Commission on May 16 unanimously recommended the Board of Supervisors approve a conditional-use permit for Wheelhouse Solar to build a 60-megawatt utility-scale solar array on nine parcels totaling 676 acres west-northwest of the Town of Victoria.
The commission’s recommendation followed a presentation by Garrett Weeks of Palladium Energy, several public speakers who voiced support, a staff report from Lindsay Edwards of the Berkley Group, and a legal review of permit conditions by Assistant County Attorney Drew DiStanislao. The commission voted 7-0 to send the application to the Board with the conditions read into the record.
Weeks, a Palladium Energy representative working on the Wheelhouse Solar project, outlined the project scope, timeline and mitigation measures. He told commissioners the piles left in the ground would be concrete rather than steel and that the company expected periodic evaluations of the decommissioning bond. “It is…
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