Mapping shows about 11,600 acres potentially eligible for solar under current draft setbacks
A desktop mapping exercise presented to the Whitman County Planning Commission estimated roughly 11,623 acres could meet the draft siting criteria for solar and battery storage; staff cautioned that critical areas, parcel-size limits and cultural resources were not modeled and would reduce that total.
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The Whitman County Planning Commission got its first countywide illustration of how proposed setback and siting rules would affect solar and battery-energy-storage siting at its June 17 workshop.
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