“DUANESBURG — With some residents worried about the number of large-scale solar energy projects that have been approved by this rural town, the Town Board may place a six-month moratorium on project approvals while it revises its solar law.
The Town Board will hold a public hearing on the proposed moratorium at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at the Town Hall, though it isn’t expected to adopt the moratorium until a future meeting.
Town Supervisor Roger Tidball said is expects the moratorium to be approved, in part because there are no applications for solar farms pending.
“Six months isn’t going to hurt anyone. We don’t have solar developers knocking down the door,” he said.
A moratorium would give town officials time to look at questions not addressed in the town’s 2016 solar energy law, including how to guarantee there will be money for decommissioning solar arrays at the end of their useful life, and how to address concerns residents have raised about size and density of commercial-scale solar facilities.”
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Williams, Stephen. Schenectady Gazette 3 December 2019.