The Commonwealth overruled the decisions of its own siting boards and one town’s moratoria on all solar and storage projects, paving the way for the imminent construction of two significant energy storage facilities.
Then-Attorney General now Governor Maura Healey issued decision disapproving Town of Carver’s moratoria on large-scale solar projects and battery storage systems citing Supreme Judicial Court decision in Tracer Lane II Realty v. City of Waltham.
Late last year, pursuant to her review authority under M.G.L. c. 40, § 32, then-Attorney General (now Governor) Maura Healey (the AG) issued a decision disapproving the Town of Carver’s.