Environmental restrictions in the Biden administration’s draft plan to open up public lands for solar development could make many proposed projects impossible to build, developers and some environmental groups have told federal officials.
The Bureau of Land Management’s preferred alternative to updating the 2012 Western Solar Plan road map would open up 22 million acres for solar energy development across 11 states.
But proposed exclusion zones, setbacks, and project design criteria aimed at protecting wildlife and the desert landscape would undermine the goals of the agency’s updates, developers said in comment letters shared with Bloomberg Law.
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