EDF Renewables is abandoning plans for a 400-megawatt photovoltaic array in response to intense local opposition.
Local opponents have succeeded in killing plans for a solar array in rural Ohio that now becomes one of the largestin the country canceled because of resistance from nearby residents and their elected leaders.
Mark Schein stands at the edge of a field last week, a few miles from his farm in Pickaway County, Ohio."I’m disappointed, and there are a couple people here in the community I don’t think I’ll speak to for the rest of my life," Schein said, referring to neighbors who sunk the project. Mark and Toni Schein in their kitchen. They are among the dozen or so landowners who signed leases for the Chipmunk Solar project, a plan that the developer is going to withdraw in the face of local opposition.Based on an anticipated lifespan of 30 years, the cancellation means local governments in this small, rural county stand to lose about $100 million.
The campaign in Williamsport, on the outer fringe of the Columbus metro area, is one of many examples of a growing resistance to renewable energy in rural America, a shift in attitudes that could make the transition to clean energy much more expensive and divisive, as each proposal threatens to turn into a prolonged fight.
"It’s all just come to a tipping point with the amount of projects being developed and the amount of counties that have been developed," Sahd said. MORE: Batteries, solar, wind and hydropower: Why renewable energy is essential to curbing climate change
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