(Chatham) — Pittsylvania County planners will field a request from a company that wants to bring another utility scale solar facility to the area.
According to the County planning page, a company called Shockoe LLC wants to build a solar facility on 15 parcels of land in the Java community. There’s no word in the application on how large the facility would be. They have applied for a Special Use Permit.
This is the first solar farm proposed since the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors adopted a series of restrictions to the county’s solar ordinance in March of 2023. It limits solar farms from being any closer than five miles from another facility and installs a 2% cap on the total acreage that can be devoted to utility scale solar in any single zoning district.
According to the county website, Pittsylvania County has around 20,000 acres with approved solar farms.