Solar permitting — Williamsburg County, South Carolina
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⛔ ACTIVE MORATORIUM — Active Moratorium; moratorium expires —confirm expiration with county planning. Permitting: CUP via Williamsburg County Planning Board. Track record: Kingstree Solar (~45 MW, 2021, Santee Cooper/Berkeley Electric PPA); Williamsburg Solar (~35 MW, 2023). Political environment: R
Key driver: Williamsburg earns B grade as one of SC's more favorable solar counties — genuinely low regulatory barriers, flat Coastal Plain terrain, abundant acreage, pro-development council, and established Santee Cooper/Berkeley Electric interconnection pathway; primary constraint is modest transmission capacity in this rural Santee Cooper service territory
Permitting process
Local permitting pathway
CUP via Williamsburg County Planning Board; County Council approval for >5 MW; Santee Cooper grid coordination for interconnection
Setbacks & buffers
None codified statewide. County CUP conditions set site-specific requirements.
Spacing requirements
Not specified
Size restrictions
None codified; managed via CUP/SUP conditions
Penalties & bonding
Total penalty: +28 | Active moratorium: +28
State-level permits & approvals
County zoning authority; no state solar preemption; special exception or conditional use permit typically required for utility-scale (>1 MW); decommissioning bond increasingly required
State policy & grid context
State RPS & clean energy policy
No binding RPS | None | Energy Freedom Act (2019) addresses solar but no state RPS
State incentive programs
Federal ITC eligible; SC state income tax credit for solar (25% up to $35,000 for commercial); SC Energy Freedom Act net metering provisions
Grid & interconnection
SERC-SE; Santee Cooper
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