More Standards Designed to Stop Solar

Approximately forty local landowners, along with other interested citizens who appreciate the potential of well-regulated solar have formed a group we call Limestone Solar.


We have identified 38 changes to improve the JPC’s Sept 2021 draft solar ordinance. These changes are modeled on the KY Model Solar ordinance and the Dec 2020 draft solar ordinance circulated by Judge Pfeffer.

This page discussed – Insurance Standards and Conditional

The Oct 2021 Draft proposed – “414.14 LIABILITY INSURANCE
The owner or operator of any industrial scale SES shall maintain a current general liability policy covering bodily injury and property damage and shall be required to name the City of Maysville or Mason County as an additional insured with dollar amount limits not less than $2,000,000 per occurrence, $5,000,000 in the aggregate, and a deductible which is reasonably available and which is mutually suitable to the applicant or successor and the City or County.


414.15 ENVIRONMENTAL INSURANCE
The owner or operator of any industrial scale SES shall maintain a current environmental insurance policy covering loss and damages associated with the unexpected release of pollutants and subsequent environmental contamination, and shall be required to name the City of Maysville or Mason County as an additional insured with dollar amount limits not less than $2,000,000 per occurrence, $5,000,000 in the aggregate, and a deductible which is reasonably available and which is mutually suitable to the applicant or successor and the City or County.

First – industrial scale is not a defined term and again shows the authors attempt to use pejorative terms rather than the defined terms of Small Scale Ground Mounted SES, Intermediate Scale Ground Mounted SES, and Large Scale Ground Mounted SES.

Since this ordinance already proposes a decommissioning bond, there is no demonstrated reason to impose this extra burden on this land use, unless the objective is to stop solar.

Both these sections should be dropped from the draft ordinance.

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