Proposed Monmouth solar farm seeking approval, but faces barrier from retroactive moratorium

KENNEBEC JOURNAL • February 8, 2021

A proposed 55-acre solar array could be on its way to Ridge Road, but a moratorium on the March 9 ballot could stop it in its tracks. Longroad Development Co., a Boston-based renewable energy development company, is contracting the project with Bath Iron Works, which will be the sole recipient of the power. The draft moratorium — which is retroactive to Nov. 18, 2020, when the ordinance changes went into effect — states that the town is “under threat of Commercial Solar Energy Facility Development pressure” and “needs time to study its ordinances to determine the implications of development proposals.”