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Battery Energy Storage Systems
Zoning Practice — March 2024by: Brian Ross, AICP, Monika Vadali March 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores how stationary battery storage fits into local land-use plans and zoning regulations. It briefly summarizes the market forces and land-use issues associated with BESS development, analyzes existing regulations for these systems, and offers guidance for new regulations rooted in sound planning principles. -
Toward a Low-Carbon Future: Municipal Financing for Energy Efficiency and Solar Power
Environment, January/February 2009by: Merrian Fuller, Stephen Portis, Daniel KammenThis article analyzes creative financing initiatives that promote solar development while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. -
The Key to Unlocking the Power of Small Scale Renewable Energy: Local Land Use Regulations
Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, 27(2): 339-367, 2012by: Patricia SalkinThis article discusses methods to support small-scale wind and solar projects through local land use regulations. -
Zoning for Sustainability: A Review and Analysis of the Zoning Ordinances of 32 Cities in the United States
Journal of the American Planning Association, 80(3): 239-252, 2014by: Edward Jepson, AICP, Anna HainesThis article examines how municipalities incorporate sustainability principles into local zoning regulations. -
Planning for Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facilities
PAS Memo — September-October 2019by: Darren Coffey, AICPThe September-October 2019 PAS Memo examines the land-use, environmental, and economic implications of large-scale utility solar facilities and recommends planning and zoning approaches to prepare localities for these uses.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Are You Solar Ready?
Seven steps to successfully manage large-scale solar development.The growing demand for electricity from low-cost, large-scale solar will pose challenges as states and communities struggle to address this new form of land use and development. -
The Sun Industry
A look at utility-scale solar energy in central Arizona.With its wide-open space and plentiful sunshine, Arizona is at the top of the list for solar energy potential in the U.S. -
Battery Energy Storage Systems
Zoning Practice — March 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores how stationary battery storage fits into local land-use plans and zoning regulations. It briefly summarizes the market forces and land-use issues associated with BESS development, analyzes existing regulations for these systems, and offers guidance for new regulations rooted in sound planning principles. -
Dubai's Planning Paradox
A city known for having the biggest and tallest now wants to be known for the smallest (carbon footprint).Can Dubai, a city transfixed by a growth-oriented approach that overshadows comprehensive planning, become a world leader in renewable energy? -
Here Comes the Sun
Community solar, or shared solar, is growing nationwide as a means of giving people a local source of solar energy, even if they don’t own a home.Community solar power installations are growing across the U.S., improving access for low-income housing residents. -
Distributed Renewable Energy: Anticipating Energy Development in Communities
PAS Memo — November-December 2012by: Joshua Hohn, AICPThe November-December 2012 issue of PAS Memo defines distributed generation, discusses its benefits and obstacles to its development, and describes how regulatory and policy changes could set the stage for a substantial increase in distributed generation.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
It's Everywhere
Federal tax credits for solar panels have made the energy source more affordable. This articles describes how communities are taking advantage of the panels' low cost. -
Local Solar
What do leading solar communities have in common? It may not be what you expect.Smaller, less urban communities are starting to generate more solar energy per capita than urban places. -
Solar Energy and Land-Use Regulation
Zoning Practice — November 2010by: Brian Ross, AICP, Suzanne Rhees, AICP November 01, 2010This issue of Zoning Practice provides an update on the Solar America Cities (SAC) program and shares how SAC cities have made code changes in response to the program’s call to identify and remove barriers to the use of solar energy in urban areas.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Solar Access: Using the Environment in Building Design
Zoning Practice — April 2010by: Mary-Margaret Jenior, AICP April 01, 2010This issue of Zoning Practice highlights the elements of solar building design and discusses how communities can use land use controls to promote and protect solar access.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Sunny Side Up
Solar power comes into its own.Rooftop solar panels and utility-scale solar installations are on the rise, expanding the U.S.'s solar capacity and increasing solar's share of overall energy production in the country. -
Balancing the Solar Access Equation
Zoning Practice — April 2009by: Abigail Feldman, Daniel Marks, AICP April 01, 2009This issue of Zoning Practice explores the growing trend to protect light access for solar energy systems and explains how planners may need to guide land-use policy development to avoid unintended consequences.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
The Commissioner — April 2014
In The Commissioner's April 2014 issue: "Solar Energy Use: Local Planning Issue," "Composition and Function of the Planning Commission," "Communicating in an Electronic Age," and more.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
Renewable Energy Gets Real
Turning local resources into green assets.Experts say we are at the beginning of a third wave of renewable energy, one that is focused on energy resilience and community-level energy independence. For municipalities and public agencies that pursue local electric generation, there are real benefits in the form of saving fossil fuels, saving money, and boosting the local economy but also real limits on what local resources can provide. -
The ABCs of Solar
Schools across the country are saving serious money by putting solar power to work.Schools are saving money with solar power.
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