Alleghany County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 66-762

Extracted standards

2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

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  • Decommissioning plan required

    A site plan for a utility-scale solar generation facility shall include a detailed decommissioning plan that provides procedures and requirements for removal of all parts of the solar energy generation facility and its various structures at the end of the useful life of the facility or if it is deemed abandoned.

  • Surety for decommissioning

    As a condition of the approval of a site plan for a utility-scale solar generation facility, the owner, lessee, or developer of the project (the 'responsible party') shall enter into a written project development agreement with the county, setting forth, at a minimum, that (i) if the facility ceases generating electricity for more than 12 consecutive months, the responsible party will provide for its decommissioning; (ii) if the owner, lessee, or developer defaults in the obligation to decommission the facility, the county has the right to enter the real property without further need of consent of the owner to engage in decommissioning; and (iii) the responsible party provides financial assurance of such performance to the county in the form of certified funds, cash escrow, bond, letter of credit, or parent guarantee.

From the ordinance

A site plan for a utility-scale solar generation facility shall include a detailed decommissioning plan that provides procedures and requirements for removal of all parts of the solar energy generation facility and its various structures at the end of the useful life of the facility or if it is deemed abandoned.
Sec. 66-762