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Marion County commissioners open working session on batteries and data centers, flag water, safety and economic trade-offs
Summary
The planning commission opened a working session on a 12-month moratorium for battery/energy storage systems and a 90-day moratorium for data centers; commissioners sought fire, environmental and utility input and set a one-hour follow-up work session in two weeks to draft recommended regulations.
The Marion County Planning Commission used a scheduled working session to put facts and concerns on the table about battery energy storage systems and data centers before recommending regulations to the county commission.
The chair opened the session by stating the moratorium durations: “The moratoriums for batteries for 12 months. The data center moratorium is for 90 days.” Commissioners said the goal is to produce a set of regulations and recommendations to the county commission by the end of the commission’s May meeting.
On battery and energy storage systems, commissioners debated numeric thresholds to separate residential backup systems from commercial-scale installations. The draft language referenced a prior resolution (2026-09) and thresholds described in it: “in excess of…
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