Environmental Renewable Energy Zoning

New Mass. AG continues hard line against local bylaws that hinder battery energy storage systems

April 18, 2023 by Tess Edwards | Leave a Comment

On March 1, 2023, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s Municipal Law Department issued a decision (pdf) disapproving two sections of the Town of Wendell’s amended zoning bylaw, one of which prohibited stand-alone battery energy storage facilities in all districts. As previewed in our blog post last month, based on a footnote in the former […]

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Environmental Renewable Energy

Mass. AG Clamps Down on Local Solar and Battery Storage Moratoria

March 2, 2023 by Tess Edwards | Leave a Comment

Late last year, pursuant to her review authority under M.G.L. c. 40, § 32, then-Attorney General (now Governor) Maura Healey (the AG) issued a decision disapproving the Town of Carver’s moratoria on large-scale solar projects and battery storage systems. The grounds for the decision were straightforward and well-supported: citing the Supreme Judicial Court’s June, 2022 […]

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