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Mecklenburg Board adopts resolutions opposing state solar/battery siting measures, RGGI cost recovery and supporting current congressional reapportionment
Summary
The Board unanimously adopted resolutions opposing several pending General Assembly measures on solar/battery siting and RGGI cost recovery and urged that Mecklenburg remain in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District pending normal reapportionment.
The Mecklenburg County Board of Supervisors used its Feb. 9 meeting to send the General Assembly several formal statements of county policy.
On solar and energy siting, the Board voted unanimously to express opposition to House Bill 711 and Senate Bill 347 (which limit local setback authority for solar facilities) and Senate Bill 343 (which would permit battery storage on land previously approved for utility-scale solar without local review). The resolution cited the Virginia Association of Counties' opposition to those bills in their current forms.
The Board also unanimously adopted a resolution asking the Commonwealth to avoid imposing costs associated with participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on county ratepayers and urging Dominion Energy not to file to recover RGGI compliance costs through Rider RGGI. Separately, the Board unanimously adopted a resolution asking that the county remain in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District and that the 2020 referendum preference for an independent or court-managed decennial map process be respected rather than a mid-decade reapportionment. Board members framed these as requests that the General Assembly and utilities protect local fiscal interests and respect prior voter decisions.
