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Temporary pause on large-scale solar makes sense
Revealed: 2/22/2022 2:02:48 PM Modified: 2/22/2022 2:02:25 PM When the Amherst City Council convenes on Feb. 28, the fate of a short term moratorium on big-scale photo voltaic will be resolved. The moratorium will suspend the progress of any floor-mounted photo voltaic bigger than 250 kilowatt for the following 14 months, unless a photo voltaic bylaw, governing massive scale solar improvement, is designed before then. Amherst should really be commended for going ahead diligently. Together with the site and probable dimension of new arrays, we are entering a new era in Amherst for industrialized solar. Amherst’s earlier photo voltaic projects had been mostly sited on open up land, neither forest…