How to Plan and Update Code for Solar Energy Projects
- Author
- Joe Supervielle, Charlie Nichols
- Published
- Wed 28 Sep 2022
- Episode Link
- https://www.icma.org/podcasts
Charlie Nichols, director of planning & development, Linn County, Iowa joins the show to explain the planning and process needed to turn a decommissioned nuclear plant into a solar farm.
- Why the county was interested in solar, and how the project started.
- The time and resources needed during the application process, and how that was accounted and paid for.
- How to best communicate to the public and remain a-political on a controversial topic.
- Lessons learned that other locations can benefit from on their own current or future large-scale energy projects.
Resources
Linn County's solar project webpage. An example on collecting and communicating all the relevant information to the public.
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