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Police Jury introduces amendment to solar-farm moratorium to exempt certain MISO-queued projects
Summary
Juror Larry Bratton introduced Ordinance No. 9521 to expand the moratorium "grandfather" clause to exempt solar farms holding active MISO generator interconnection queue positions submitted prior to the MISO DPP-2023 study cycle; the transcript records the ordinance text but not a recorded vote.
The Ouachita Parish Police Jury heard Ordinance No. 9521 on June 16, 2025, an amendment to the temporary moratorium on parish permitting for solar farms. Juror Larry Bratton, District C, introduced the ordinance, which would supplement Ordinance No. 9511 by adding a "grandfather" exemption for projects that hold active generator interconnection queue positions with the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) submitted prior to the MISO DPP-2023 study cycle.
The ordinance text presented to the jury states the amendment aims to prevent the moratorium from imposing "an undue burden on those who had already made the investment of time and resources" necessary to reach objective development benchmarks, while preserving the moratorium's purpose of pausing new approvals while regulations are considered. The minutes record the ordinance language but do not show a roll-call vote or final adoption in the minutes for this meeting.
Because the recorded minutes contain the ordinance language without a recorded outcome, the ordinance remains in the introduced/consideration stage based on the meeting record.
