SitePathLocal intelTennessee › Obion County
Tennessee

Solar permitting — Obion County, Tennessee

FIPS 47131

No tracked activity yet — coverage expands weekly.

B
Obion County, TN
Risk score 36/100 · Full scorecard →
Compliance: LowNo local solar ordinanceTrajectory: StableSaturation: Moderate

West TN flat agricultural plain with significant solar farm activity; Union City area; low density; favorable. Permitting: CUP per SB 2373. Track record: Obion County Solar I (~40 MW, 2021); Reelfoot Solar (~25 MW, 2022); Union City

Key driver: West TN flat agricultural plain with significant solar farm activity; Union City area; low density; favorable terrain for utility-scale; standard TVA interconnect; among better solar counties in…

Permitting process

Local permitting pathway

CUP per SB 2373; decommissioning bond standard

Setbacks & buffers

None codified statewide. County planning commission or BZA sets site-specific conditions case-by-case via SUP. TVA requirements may apply for grid-connected projects. — 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

No spacing requirements codified

Size restrictions

No size restrictions codified

Penalties & bonding

No penalties or adjustments. Standard CUP/SUP process.

State-level permits & approvals

County zoning authority under SB 2373 (2022); conditional use permit or special exception required; decommissioning bond often required; setback standards increasingly codified at county level

🔒
Full permitting requirements

Full records for this county are part of a SitePath subscription.

State policy & grid context

State RPS & clean energy policy

No binding RPS | None | Tennessee has no state RPS; TVA integrated resource planning only

State incentive programs

Federal ITC eligible; no Tennessee state solar tax credit; TVA Green Power Switch program

Grid & interconnection

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) — covers all 95 TN counties

🔒
Full state policy & grid detail

Full records for this county are part of a SitePath subscription.

Battery storage (BESS) P1 State-Default Permitting

No confirmed county BESS ordinance.

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.

Subscriber intel Subscribers

Researched for this county and available with a subscription:

Sign in to view

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

No tracked activity yet — coverage expands weekly.

Explore every US county on the interactive map

Filter by grade, state, moratorium status, and compliance stringency. Compare counties side by side.

Open the county map → SitePath home All Tennessee counties
Data sources: public agendas/minutes from local government sites; PSC dockets from state regulators; news from GDELT and curated RSS. Last refreshed 2026-09-10. See the county risk scorecard or the full Tennessee permitting index.