A. The purpose of this article is to provide procedures, standards and regulations for installation and maintenance of small wind energy systems, wind energy systems and solar energy systems and to protect the Town of Hammonton from the visual or other adverse impacts of these facilities, while encouraging their unobtrusive development to provide the benefits of alternative clean energy to the Town of Hammonton, its residents and businesses.
B. The primary purpose of a wind or solar energy system shall be to provide power for the principal use of the property whereon said system is to be located rather than for the generation of power for commercial purposes, although this provision shall not be interpreted to prohibit the sale of excess power generated from time to time from a wind or solar energy system designed to meet the energy needs of the principal use. For the purposes of this subsection, the sale of excess power shall be limited so that in no event shall an energy system be designed to generate more energy for sale than that which is reasonably necessary to power the principal use on the property.
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