From:	Michael Behrendt
Sent:	Wednesday, April 18, 2018 3:37 PM
Subject:	Solar Array Amendment comments - Paul Rasmussen

To the Planning Board,
We will have on the agenda at the April 25 meeting a public hearing on the draft Solar Energy Systems 
ordinance.  Paul Rasmussen will not be able to make the meeting so he has provided these comments.  
Please see below.

Michael Behrendt
Durham Town Planner
Town of Durham
8 Newmarket Road
Durham, NH  03824
(603) 868-8064
www.ci.durham.nh.us

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Rasmussen [] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 2:21 PM
To: Michael Behrendt
Subject: Solar Array Amendment comments

Hello Michael,

I am providing the following for the review at the next meeting. These comments are based on the 
posted draft from April 12.

1-The definition of Freestanding Solar Energy System uses an "and" which implies both a) and b) are 
required.   Should this be an "or"?  Will all Freestanding systems require a car port and tracking system?

2-Consider that many types of equipment and tools are designed to use electrical hookup.  An irrigation 
system that may not be located inside a building could use a small solar array to charge a battery system 
that powers the pumps instead of utilizing the greater electrical grid.  The UNH farm in Barrington uses 
solar to power the weather station in the center of the field. We need to be thinking about how 
commerce and agriculture will work in the future, not how it was done in the last century.

Paul Rasmussen