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Surry County Planning Commission · June 23, 2025

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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