“It was 2018 when Colleen Parker’s phone at the Adirondack Park Agency started to ring every month with solar company proposals. The calls were not from groups based in Albany, New York City or the Adirondacks.
“Solar companies in Montana, California and all over the country were starting to look at the Adirondacks,” Parker, an environmental program specialist with the APA, said.
With no specific regulations or permits for renewable energy projects at the APA or at the town and village level, the projects were put into a pre-application phase and staff got to work on a large-scale solar permit. Just under a dozen towns and villages among the park’s 101 have since created zoning laws for solar facilities, too. The projects Parker was getting calls about three years ago are now starting to be approved.”
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Craig, Gwendolyn. Adirondack Explorer 15 May 2021.