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Reports: BayWa pulls application for Va. solar project

A subsidiary of German company BayWa AG has withdrawn an application for a conditional use permit for a solar project it planned to build in Culpeper County, Va., according to local media reports.

An attorney representing the developer, BayWa subsidiary Cricket Solar LLC, informed Culpeper County's planning director of its intention to withdraw the application in an Aug. 26 letter, according to reports in The Free Lance-Star newspaper of Fredericksburg, Va., and the Northern Virginia news site InsideNoVa.

The project was strongly opposed by Citizens for Responsible Solar, a group that, according to its website, promotes "responsible solar and other forms of renewable energy" but does not support "the approval and development of massive rural industrial-scale solar projects," which it said leads to the "destruction of habitat and farmland."

The project would have had a capacity of 80 MW, according to an earlier report in The Free Lance-Star.

Opponents of the project noted the historical importance of the area, especially as it relates to the Civil War.