Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: the case is closed and removed from the Siting Board’s Docket.

Notice of Filing Final Site Plan

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Order Entered: 1. Glover Creek’s petitions for confidential treatment are granted in part and denied in part. 2. Glover Creek’s petition for confidential treatment for personal correspondence and cost estimates in the January 19, 2020, February 15, 2020, and May 25, 2020 petitions is granted. 3. Glover Greek’s petition for confidential treatment for Exhibit B of the motion to amend project boundaries in the May 25, 2020 petition is denied. 4. The designated material granted confidential treatment by this Order shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for an indefinite period or until further order of this Siting Board. 5. Use of the designated material granted confidential treatment by this Order in any Siting Board proceeding shall comply with 807 KAR 5:110, Section 5. 6. Glover Creek shall inform the Siting Board if the designated material granted confidential treatment becomes publicly available or no longer qualifies for confidential treatment.

Order Entered: 1. The seventh mitigation measure in the Siting Board’s Order of September 23, 2020, is hereby eliminated and replaced with the following mitigation measure: 7. Glover Creek shall plant native evergreen species as a visual buffer to mitigate viewshed impact at locations shown and in the manner described in the site development plan in Attachment A of the Site Assessment Report for planting areas and described in Section 2 of the application. The evergreen shrubs shall be either mature at the time of planting of at least six feet in height, or if Glover Creek elects to plant non-mature evergreen shrubs of at least 3 feet at the time of planting, Glover Creek shall also include additional temporary buffers that would immediately help to mitigate any potential noise and visual impacts until the evergreen shrubs have grown to maturity. 2. The eighth mitigation measure in the Siting Board’s Order of September 23, 2020, is hereby eliminated and replaced with the following mitigation measure: 8. If the pile driving activity occurs within 1,500 feet of a noise sensitive receptor, Glover Creek shall implement a construction method that will suppress the noise generated during the pile driving process (i.e., semi-tractor and canvas method; sound blankets on fencing surrounding the solar site; or any other comparable method).

Notice of Filing - Proposed Order

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Motion

James W. Gardner Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Notice of Transfer

James W. Gardner Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Responses to Data Request

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Data Request

Corrected Read1st Letter

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Motion to Amend Project Boundaries

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

20210408_Acknowledgement Letter of Supplemental Application Fees.pdf

Order Entered: Glover Creek is assessed a supplemental application fee of $54,930 that shall be remitted to the Board no later than April 9, 2021.

Responses to Staffs Second Request for Information on Rehearing

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Data Request

Response to Staffs First Request for Information on Rehearing

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Data Request

Order Entered: 1. Glover Creek’s requests for reconsideration and clarification of the mitigation measures identified herein is granted for the purpose of conducting further investigation into those issues. 2. The procedural schedule set forth in the Appendix to this Order shall be followed.

Motion to Strike and Modify

James W. Gardner Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Petition for Reconsideration

James W. Gardner Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Order Entered: 1. Glover Creek's petition for confidential protection for the information contained in its discovery responses to Siting Board Staff's and Harvey Economics' Second Requests for Information, Item 1, is granted. 2. The designated information contained in Glover Creek's discovery responses to Siting Board Staff's and Harvey Economics' Second Requests for Information, Item1, shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for an indefinite period or until further Order of this Siting Board. 3. Use of the material in question in any Siting Board proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. Glover Creek shall inform the Siting Board if the material in question becomes publicly available or no longer qualifies for confidential treatment.

Final Order Entered: 1. Glover Creek's Application for a Certificate to Construct an approximately 55 MWac merchant solar electric generating facility in Metcalfe County, Kentucky is conditionally granted subject to full compliance with the mitigation measures and condition prescribed in Appendix A. 2. Glover Creek's motion for deviation from the 2,000 feet setback requirement is granted except for the location of the inverters. 3. Glover Creek shall fully comply with the mitigation measures and conditions prescribed in Appendix A.

Order Entered: 1. Glover Creek's petition for confidential protection for the information contained in its discovery responses to Siting Board Staff's First Requests for Information, Items 3, 7, and Exhibit K is granted. 2. The designated information contained in in Glover Creek's discovery responses to Siting Board Staff's First Requests for Information, Items 3, 7, and Exhibit K shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for an indefinite period or until further Order of this Siting Board. 3. Use of the material in question in any Siting Board proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. Glover Creek shall inform the Siting Board if the material in question becomes publicly available or no longer qualifies for confidential treatment. 5. If a nonparty to this proceeding requests to inspect the material granted confidential treatment by this Order and the period during which the material has been granted confidential treatment has not expired, Glover Creek shall have 30 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the material still falls within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If Glover Creek is unable to make such demonstration, the requested material shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Siting Board shall deny the request for inspection.

Response to Harvey Economics Report

James W. Gardner Glover Creek Solar, LLC

20200710_Letter Filing Report into the Record.pdf

Responses to Second Requests for Information from the Siting Board and Harvey Economics, as well as a Petition for Confidentiality

M. Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Corrected Exhibit M to Glover Creeks Exhibit M of its Responses to Initial Requests for Information.

James W. Gardner Glover Creek Solar

Supplemental Response to Harvey Economics First Data Request, Item XII(F)

James W. Gardner Glover Creek Solar, LLC

Data Request

Response to First Request for Information

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar, LLC

20200529_Chairman Schmitt Letter to Metcalfe County Judge Harold Stilts Designating as Vice Chairman.pdf

Data Request

20200513_Memo Filing Procedural Schedule and Extending Deadline.pdf

20200429_Memo Filing Document.pdf

Motion to Deviate from Setback Requirements

Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar

20200331_Acknowledgement Letter of Application Fees.pdf

20200331_No Deficiency Letter.pdf

Application for a Construction Certificate

M Todd Osterloh Glover Creek Solar

20200227_Letter Filing Chairman Schmitt Letter to Metcalfe County Judge Executive into the Record.pdf

20200227_Letter Filing Chairman Schmitt Letter to Governor Beshear into the Record.pdf

20200212_PSC Acknowledgment Letter.pdf

Glover Solar, LLC Notice of Intent to File an Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to Construct an Approximately 55 Megawatt Merchant Electric Solar Generating Facility in Metcalfe County, Kentucky pursuant to KRS 278.700 and 8