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Alternative Energy Regulation On Its Way?

Posted on 11 December 2009. Tags: , , , , , , ,

SANATOGA PA – To ensure the words “green” and “safe” get used in the same sentence, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s Board of Commissioners hinted this week it may consider a law to govern the installation and use of alternative energy devices like solar panels and windmills.

Solar panels installed on the roof of a house.

Commissioners’ Vice President Jonathan Spadt briefly referred to the board’s interest in “alternative energy regulations” during a discussion prompted by former commissioner Thomas Troutman at its Monday (Dec. 7, 2009) meeting in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA.

Troutman, who asked about current regulation of solar panels – equipment used to gather sunlight for conversion to electrical power – learned from township Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway that such installations are now subject to size, setback and zoning requirements under township law, as well as applicable building codes.

That’s when Spadt made it known further regulation might be proposed at some point in the future. No time frame was mentioned; it was, he indicated, a very preliminary idea.

For the township, however, so-called green or sustainable building construction is an increasingly hot topic.

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