“TJA Clean Energy, the company that submitted a letter of intent to the town of Berne shortly before the town council adopted industrial-scale solar facility regulations on Dec. 17, told The Enterprise this week that their hopes of proposing a solar farm spanning up to 25 acres are complicated by the new law.
The law states that solar facilities in Berne can be no larger than 10 acres.
“We just received a copy of the bylaws, and we’re scrambling to make some changes,” Project Development Engineer Michael Frateschi told The Enterprise.
He said that the law “definitely threatens” the likelihood of a farm being built on a 46-acre parcel near the intersection of Canaday Hill and Switzkill roads.
The parcel is adjacent to 2216 Switzkill Road, a two and one-half acre parcel that contains a home, owned by James Hamilton, according to the 2019 assessment roll. “
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Zweifel, Noah. Altamont Enterprise 6 January 2020.