THE GROWING USE OF SOLAR PANELS is raising land use issues in Rhode Island, where state officials would like to see all cities and towns adopt local ordinances that clarify where and how solar panels can be built in each community. In particular, officials would like to steer solar projects to industrial land and brownfields and create buffer zones from residential neighborhoods, rather than using up the state’s limited supply of green space and undeveloped land for housing./BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/KEN JAMES
The solar industry has a firm foothold in Rhode Island, but a consequential issue is arising – how to best manage the industry’s growth. For a growing number of municipalities and environmentalists, that has meant conserving Rhode Island’s dwindling green space by steering large solar panel projects toward gravel pits, former industrial sites and the…
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