We may have discovered a way to make the upcoming 1200+ acre solar farm acceptable to residents. There is a Kentucky law that says an electric generating plant must be at least 1000' from property lines. A county ordinance could decrease this distance, but it cannot be increased. So the closest a panel could be located is 1000' from a road, property line, etc. When this was brought up at the last meeting the GreenGo people said that they were going to have a county ordinance passed reducing the distance to 300' FROM A RESIDENCE !! Not the property line, from the residence. Think about that. Several of the families living on lots next to the 'solar farm' will have solar panels 300' from their home on all three sides plus across the road. The county commissioners didn't know anything about this proposed ordinance until we met with them.
The company doing this keeps repeating that it will pay out around $18 million to people in the county over the next twenty years. This will only go to three families. The county will be on the hook for disposing of defective panels, cleaning up the site after the twenty year lease is up and not renewed, firefighting equipment and training, road repair, and several other things. None of the three families involved have the panels near or around their homes. They made sure that the closest was around a quarter mile away. They also have larger areas around their relatives homes than the proposed 300'. Well, except for one guy who has his ex-wife's house completely blocked off by the panels.
The company is leasing the land from the farmers, did not want to outright buy it. After reading the results of several multi-million dollar lawsuits we are convinced that the company is setting up the land owners to take the fall when the inevitable lawsuits occur. And the people doing this are too greedy or too ignorant to realize this.
