(TNS) — The Board of Carroll County Commissioners plan to voice their opposition to a proposed solar facility on farmland in Sykesville during a public hearing Wednesday.
The Maryland Public Service Commission will hold an online public hearing at 7 p.m., Wednesday, before Public Utility Law Judge Chuck McLean, on the proposal from Spring Valley Solar 1 LLC. The company intends to build a 2.25-megawatt solar farm on 14 acres of an 80-acre property at 1500 Fannie Dorsey Road in Sykesville.
Since new solar-generating farms are prohibited on Carroll County farmland, according to the county’s zoning code, the commissioners plan to attend the hearing to voice their opposition, according to a news release from the county on Monday…