KENNEBEC JOURNAL • October 14, 2022
Resident complaints about state solar arrays being constructed at two of Augusta’s Interstate 95 interchanges have city officials considering once again rewriting local solar development rules. Those rules don’t, and won’t, apply to the projects causing such consternation by installing thousands of solar panels in the highly visible “cloverleaf” areas at exits 109 and 112 in Augusta. The solar farm installations by contractors working for the state did not undergo any local review and are not subject to local zoning rules because they are within the right of way of Interstate 95.