RENO COUNTY, Kan. — The Reno County Planning Commission finished the limited edits to the text of proposed regulations for Limited-Scale Commercial Solar Energy Projects at their meeting last week.
The Board provided clarification on what is not allowed underneath solar panels (think concrete and asphalt) and other minor tweaks to the regulations.
They also prohibited battery energy storage because the groups who have been interested in projects have not expressed a desire to use batteries for that purpose anyway, and then that makes the question of a building where batteries would be stored moot.
The Planning Commission still needs to work on ground mounted solar for individuals, but that wasn't part of these regulations.
The Board of County Commissioners will see the edits on an April agenda.
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