WeConservePA, the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach And Research and the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law will host a four-part series of webinars on solar energy starting March 17.

The March 17 webinar-- Managing Grid Scale Solar Development In PA-- will be broadcast from the PA Land Conservation Conference in Gettysburg from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.

The webinar will include an assessment of where utility-scale solar development is trending, what the wider implications on land use might be and offer thoughts on how it can be managed most effectively by Pennsylvania’s local governments.

The second half of the session will be devoted to reviewing the effectiveness of the existing tools enacted by the Pennsylvania legislature to mitigate development pressure on undeveloped lands.

The webinar will also look at some new tools in that regard that have been enacted in surrounding states in the PJM Interconnection. These are generally called “solar siting” laws and regulations.

And in Pennsylvania, what influence should be exerted over solar development siting beyond local zoning? What statewide or other measures would complement the public and private investments already made in the preservation of farmed and forested lands?

Click Here to register for this session and for more information.

Webinar Schedule

The follow-up webinars will be held from 10:00 to 11:15 a.m. on--

-- April 5 – Siting Considerations for Community and Grid Scale Solar Development.

-- April 19 – Solar Ordinance Development.

-- May 5 – Panel Discussion with Series Speakers.

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[Posted: February 7, 2022]

2/14/2022