An Ohio solar project overcomes local opposition and misinformation

An Ohio solar project overcomes local opposition and misinformation

Fields in Knox County, Ohio. A firm named Open Road Renewables plans to build its 120-megawatt Frasier Solar array in the county. (Photo by Logan Wenger, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr)This story was originally published by Canary Media. A contested solar agrivoltaics project avoided having its permit denied by Ohio regulators, likely thanks to the neutral stances of a county board and one of its townships. The Ohio Power Siting Board approved construct…

An Ohio Solar Project Overcomes Local Opposition And… - Data Intelligence

It’s also hard to fact-check local government resolutions, said Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, a Cleveland State University law professor who testified as an expert witness for the Ohio Environmental Council. Those decisions could be based on misinformation or simply be a response to political pressure, with little focus on the factual basis for objections. Facts vs. misinformation Frasier Solar became ​“known nationally as part of a case study on h…