Louisa County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 86-45
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Utility-scale solar adjacent property compensation500 dollars
it is recommended that solar project operators provide $500.00 per parcel per year to neighboring landowners.
- Utility-scale solar annual contribution percentage0.13 pct
Solar project operators should contribute between 0.075% and 0.125% of the county's operating budget as an annual payment per megawatt produced.
- Utility-scale solar maximum distance from transmission1 miles
such facilities may not locate more than a mile from existing high-voltage transmission or distribution line rights-of-way.
- Utility-scale solar maximum total acreage6,343 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
the total approved utility-scale solar generation facilities shall not exceed two percent of total county acreage or 6,343 acres
- Utility-scale solar project timeline5 years
Solar project applicants must begin generating electricity within five years of project approval.
From the ordinance
In order to preserve and protect the counties rural ambiance and its agricultural and forestal lands, the board made a determination that the total approved utility-scale solar generation facilities shall not exceed two percent of total county acreage or 6,343 acres (current approved facilities total 5,053 acres).