COLUMBUS – The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) Wednesday approved Clear Mountain Energy Center, LLC’s proposal to construct a solar-powered generating facility in Clermont County. The OPSB denied Richwood Solar LLC’s proposal to construct a solar-powered generating facility in Union County.
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The OPSB denied the application of Richwood Solar to construct a 250 MW solar-powered electric generating facility in Leesburg, Claibourne, and Taylor townships in Union County. The OPSB found that, based on the consistent opposition to the project from each of the local government entities and their constituents who are impacted, the proposed project would fail to serve the “public interest, convenience, and necessity” as required under Ohio law. The OPSB noted that each of the local governments with physical contact to the project – Union County and Taylor, Leesburg, and Claiborne townships – acted to oppose its approval, and that the public comments and testimony received in the case reinforced the local government opposition. The project as proposed would have consisted of large arrays of solar panels and a 50 MW battery energy storage system occupying 1,217 acres within a 1,435-acre project area…