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Pollinator-Friendly Solar Practices

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Resource States and State Governments

Report, Pollinator-Friendly Solar in Indiana

The EQ Research report, Pollinator-Friendly Solar in Indiana (2020), highlights the benefits of adopting policies that encourage pollinator-friendly practices at solar sites, and includes a model loca...
Example States and State Governments

South Carolina’s Solar Habitat Act (2018)

The legislation directs the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, working in conjunction with other state agencies and nonprofit conservation organizations to establish a native vegetation h...
Example States and State Governments

Illinois’ Pollinator-Friendly Solar Site Act (2018)

Illinois’ Pollinator-Friendly Solar Site Act (2018) required the Illinois Dept. of Natural resources to create a scorecard with consultation from the University of Illinois. Before an owner of a solar...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, State Pollinator-Friendly Solar Initiatives

The Clean Energy States Alliance’s 2020 report provides an overview of state efforts to encourage solar PV development in a manner that is beneficial to pollinators.
Example States and State Governments

Maryland’s Solar Facilities Pollinator-Friendly Designation Act

Maryland’s SB 1158 (2017) charges the Maryland Department of Natural Resources with creating a pollinator friendly designation program,promulgating regulations and a scorecard. The scorecard must be r...
Example States and State Governments

Minnesota’s Pollinator-Friendly Solar Act

The Pollinator Friendly Solar Act establishes native vegetation and habitat management practices for solar developers and local governments alike to maximize habitat creation for birds, pollinators, a...
Example States and State Governments

Michigan’s Farmland Open Space Preservation Program

Michigan’s Farmland Open Space Preservation Program allows landowners to enter into a developmental rights agreement with the State, under which they can receive certain tax benefits and not be subjec...
Example States and State Governments

Vermont’s Pollinator-friendly Solar Generation Standard

Vermont’s Pollinator-friendly Solar Generation Standard requires that solar developers claiming their solar site is beneficial to pollinators and birds are assessed to address specific planting and ma...
Resource Local Governments

Report, Examining the Potential for Agricultural Benefits from Pollinator Habitat at Solar Facilities in the United States

This 2018 report in Environmental Science and Technology identifies over 3,500 km2 of agricultural land near existing and planned US solar energy facilities that may benefit from increased pollination...
Example States and State Governments

New York’s Pollinator-Friendly Solar Act (2018)

The legislation requires the New York Department of Environmental Conservation in association with others, to develop minimum guidelines for vegetation management plans used by those who make public c...
Example Public Utilities

Xcel Energy Pollinator-Friendly Requirements

In 2018, Xcel Energy in Minnesota became the first utility in the U.S. to require developers that submit bids to build new solar facilities under competitive solicitations to disclose the proposed sol...
Example Local Governments

Randolph County Pollinator-Friendly Solar Ordinance

Solar energy ordinance that includes a pollinator-friendly provision ahead of construction of Indiana’s largest solar farm. The new ordinance includes a land stewardship provision requiring the ground...
Resource States and State Governments

Pollinator-Friendly Solar Scorecards

Fresh Energy maintains a database of states that have published pollinator-friendly solar scorecards, both through state law and otherwise, as well as their own state-neutral scorecard.
Example Local Governments

Linn County’s Pollinator Friendly Solar Development Standards

Linn County’s solar development standards under its zoning ordinances specify site requirements related to ground cover and buffer areas of solar projects that benefit pollinators. The standards requi...