A busy meeting filled with hours of public comment Tuesday in Henderson County Fiscal Court resulted in two significant approvals: a one-year moratorium on any new application for battery energy storage systems in the county and capping the number of acres of solar farms in the county.
The motion for the moratorium made by magistrate Taylor Tompkins came close to the end of a nearly four-hour meeting, after Airline Road resident Deirdre McConathy made a second pitch that a BESS moratorium would allow residents “a layer of protection” from any new installations while residents work to strengthen the county’s current BESS ordinance.
McConathy’s second conversation with the fiscal court came after many other discussed the moratorium and other renewable energy related topics during the “Good of the County” portion of the meeting…