Solar permitting — West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
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Southeast Louisiana Tunica Hills rural parish; St. Permitting: Conditional Use Permit; 300-ft max / 150-ft min setbacks. Track record: no prior utility-scale solar on record — greenfield jurisdiction; no established approval preceden…
Key driver: Southeast Louisiana Tunica Hills rural parish; St. Francisville seat; Entergy Louisiana and Claiborne Electric Cooperative MISO grid; Angola State Penitentiary occupies significant public land but private Tunica Hills and bottomland parcels available; low density (36.5/sq mi); standard CUP with minimal political complexity; B-grade reflects low barriers, available private land, and minimal saturation risk — Tunica Hills topography slightly limits optimal flat sites but risk remains low
Permitting process
Local permitting pathway
Conditional Use Permit (CUP) — West Feliciana Parish Police Jury
Setbacks & buffers
Act 279 (2025) siting requirements, applying to a solar facility of 75 ACRES OR MORE not wholly within an industrial-zoned area or an LED certified site, constructed after 1 January 2026: 300 ft from a RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY LINE to the nearest solar equipment, with a 35 ft barrier of new landscaping or a 50 ft barrier of natural plants; 100 ft from the low water mark of natural and navigable waterways; 50 ft from the pavement edge of a public road, with a 35 ft vegetative barrier. Noise may not exceed 10 dB above pre-construction ambient at the property line. A parish may adopt its own siting requirements and opt out of the state requirements by resolution, and a landowner may opt out by written agreement with the operator — NOTE: the distances above are a STATE-level fallback, not a figure read from this county's own ordinance. We hold siting-rule records for this county which may include a stricter local limit we have not yet extracted. Verify against the county's own ordinance before relying on these.
Spacing requirements
None established
Size restrictions
None codified; managed via CUP/SUP conditions
Penalties & bonding
Total penalty: +28 | Active moratorium: +28
State-level permits & approvals
Parish zoning authority; no state solar preemption; conditional use permit typically required for utility-scale (>1 MW); no mandatory decommissioning bond statewide (some parishes require it)
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State policy & grid context
State RPS & clean energy policy
No binding RPS | None | Louisiana has no state RPS; voluntary pilot 350 MW distributed
State incentive programs
Federal ITC eligible; Louisiana sales tax exemption for solar equipment; Louisiana property tax exemption for solar; no state income tax credit for commercial solar
Grid & interconnection
MISO / Entergy Louisiana
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Battery storage (BESS) P1 State-Default Permitting
No confirmed parish BESS ordinance.
Local BESS ordinances & bylaws
County-level battery-storage status, safety requirements, and projects — each linked to a primary source.
Community opposition P1
No organized opposition on record for this county yet — no petition, group, or oppositional coverage tracked. Read that as nothing found, not as nothing there: absence of records is not evidence of local support.
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Energy-related meetings & dockets P1
No tracked activity yet — coverage expands weekly.
State PSC dockets P1
No tracked activity yet — coverage expands weekly.
Local news P3
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