Planning Commission

Surry County Planning Commission · June 23, 2025

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Staff presentation of conditional use permit application

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Planning staff (speaker 1) summarized the application by Bear Island Battery Storage LLC for a conditional use permit (CUP) to site an 89 megawatt (nameplate) battery energy storage system (BESS) with a 4-hour duration on a 32.5-acre footprint (facility itself ~10 acres) on parcel 54-1 in the Bakers Castle District off White Marsh Road. Staff identified zoning (AR), Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area constraints including an RPA and delineated wetlands, required mitigation, site screening (100-foot vegetative buffer proposed), lighting limits, required noise study before site-plan approval, and—

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Surry County Planning Commission held a public hearing and voted to recommend approval of a conditional use permit for Bear Island Battery Storage LLC to build an 89 MW (4-hour) utility-scale battery energy storage system and associated switchyard/substation, after staff presentation, expert testimony on fire/plume modeling, public comment, and commission discussion of traffic, noise, buffers and decommissioning.

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