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Read. Follow. Verify.Kentucky HB 925 sets turbine setback rules and local planning authority for wind energy facilities
Last action · March 17, 2026: taken from Natural Resources & Energy (H) 2nd reading returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)Sponsors: Suzanne Miles and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
Kentucky HB 925 requires wind energy turbines and generating facilities to maintain specific minimum distance setbacks from property boundaries, schools, hospitals, and residential neighborhoods. The measure allows local planning and zoning commissions to establish their own primacy setbacks, and mandates public meetings and state agency notices for proposed energy projects.
Property owners near proposed wind turbine sites face new mandatory physical buffer zones of 1,000 feet from property boundaries and 2,000 feet from residential areas, while local governments gain authority to set overriding zoning rules.
- The Kentucky General Assembly is the state legislative body responsible for passing laws concerning public utilities and energy facility siting. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
adjoining property owners
Adjoining property owners must receive personal mailed notices regarding project meetings and are guaranteed a 1,000-foot buffer distance from proposed wind turbines.
merchant electric generating facility developers
Developers must comply with mandatory setback distances, host public meetings upon request, and provide project research notices to multiple state agencies.
planning and zoning commissions
Planning and zoning commissions gain the authority to establish local setback and decommissioning requirements that take primacy over state board rules.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
How far must wind turbines be placed from neighboring properties?
Can local planning and zoning commissions override state setback rules?
Who must be notified before a public meeting regarding a wind energy project?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the House floor.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 17, 2026HouseFloortaken from Natural Resources & Energy (H) 2nd reading returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
- Mar 16, 2026HouseCommitteetaken from Natural Resources & Energy (H) 1st reading returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
- Mar 11, 2026HouseCommitteeto Natural Resources & Energy (H)
- Mar 4, 2026HouseIntroducedintroduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)
Version history
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Local Zoning Primacy over State Board Rules
HB 925 shifts authority by giving local planning commissions final primacy over state-level board setback requirements without allowing the board to grant waivers or deviations.
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Sources
apps.legislature.ky.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy65Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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