…get updates on solar policy, Comprehensive Plan The Fluvanna County Planning Commission has a work session at 6 p.m. followed by a regular session at 7 p.m. They meet at…
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President’s Letter: While There Is Still Time
…comes to solar, the state is making tremendous progress toward the goals of the Virginia Clean Economy Act, which requires development of 16,100 megawatts of solar and onshore wind by…
Week Ahead for July 8, 2024: Albemarle County Planning Commission to get look at “refined” process for Comprehensive Plan update
…the Comprehensive Plan as well as another public hearing on utility-scale solar uses on agricultural land. Nelson County Supervisors have a lot of odds and ends including approving a project…
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for September 9, 2024
…be a public hearing on the creation of a solar zoning district that would allow for construction of utility-scale solar generation facilities as well as supplemental regulations they would have…
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for January 6, 2025
…development plan for Suntribe Solar / Carysbrook Solar “to construct a 3-MW ground-mounted solar facility on approximately 27 acres of 361.3-acre parcel to be accessed from Route 615.” Under unfinished…
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for February 3, 2025
…but a two paragraph staff report doesn’t tell us which ones. Albemarle Board of Supervisors on Wednesday will hold four public hearings including one for an 11-acre solar field in…
General Assembly Update – Spring 2025
…of housing, utility-scale solar and other projects favored by the development industry. PEC has consistently worked to preserve local planning and land use control, and believes local control is the…
2025 Impact Report
…varied forms of distributed generation. PEC believes that distributed generation energy solutions — rooftop solar, parking lot solar, agrivoltaics and batteries — have significant potential in the Commonwealth to meet…
Update on Solar Regulations, Soil/Forage Research & Agrivoltaic Project Initiatives – Webinar Recording
…Environmental Sciences Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Cooperative Extension, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) hosted a webinar on updates around solar regulations, soil/forage research, and agrivoltaics…
On the Ground Updates – April 2026
…Maroon Solar, on Raccoon Ford Road in southern Culpeper. This is Strata’s fourth such application for this property after the first three failed. While PEC remains a supporter of solar,…