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The largest utility-scale solar farm project proposed to date in Amherst County in the Piney River area just next to the Nelson County border received the county board of supervisors’ unanimous vote of denial Tuesday.
For the second time in six months the Amherst County Planning Commission voted to recommend denial of a proposed 50-megawatt solar panel facility on Virginia 151 in the Piney River area near the Nelson County border.
Expressing a need to see the view from at least one property’s viewshed affected by the proposed Piney River Solar Project in northwestern Amherst County, the county’s planning commission voted Thursday to table a special exception permit request.
Utility-scale solar facilities and adding potential zoning rules to regulate them generated heavy discussion among the Amherst County Planning Commission during an Aug. 7 work session.
AMHERST — Energix Renewables, a company pursuing a special exception permit to operate a utility-scale solar operation on about 170 acres in the Piney River area of Amherst County, withdrew