Tuesday, June 25, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: Two Trumpy townships in Wisconsin block renewable energy projects

 
Town of Brighton (population 620). 
Town of Eau Plaine (population 1,061).

Source:  Marathon County

Last week, EDP Renewables subsidiary Marathon Wind Farm LLC sued the towns of Brighton and Eau Pleine for their ordinances restricting wind farms, arguing both ordinances violate state law. 
In fact, local ordinances or zoning restrictions were the leading cause of wind project cancellations over the last five years and the second leading cause of solar cancellations, according to a survey of renewable developers released in January by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.


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