WATTSBURG — A development company has appealed Venango Township’s denial of its conditional use application to build a 902-acre, 80-megawatt solar farm in the township.
Wilson Solar LLC filed the appeal in the Erie County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday.
The company also has submitted a new conditional use application to Venango Township. The application is for the construction of a 336-acre, 80-megawatt solar farm.
The court appeal
Attorneys for Wilson Solar are asking the court to reverse Venango Township supervisors’ Jan. 8 decision denying the company’s conditional use application and enter an order approving it.
The company claims that the decision was “arbitrary, capricious, constituted an abuse of discretion and an error of law,” according to the appeal.
Solar energy developments are permitted in agricultural and industrial districts in the township, and Wilson Solar provided “substantial evidence” that its project “satisfied all of the specific objective requirements of the Township’s Zoning Ordinance and the Solar Ordinance,” according to the appeal.