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- 0:05Salle approved special use permit for ground-mounted solar with Tesla home battery,
- 0:11Written by Emily Beebe. This article is being read by an automated
- 0:15voice, brought to you by Everlet. The LaSalle City Council approved a
- 0:21special use permit Monday for a ground mounted residential solar system at
- 0:25641 US6, including a Tesla Powerwall 3 the company's newest home battery,
- 0:32designed to power a house through an outage. Frank Seneca 3 and
- 0:36Haley NSeneca, also known as Haley Duncan, requested the permit. The system,
- 0:40according to Planning documents, would consist of 21 ground-mounted solar modules producing
- 0:459.450 kW DC and 11.500 kW AC paired with the
- 0:51PowerWall 3 battery with 13.5 kWh of usable storage capacity. The
- 0:57contractor would be Volt Home Pros LLC. The engineer of record is
- 1:01Scott Whistling, PE, license no six two zero seven zero five four
- 1:05four through Whistling Consulting. The Planning Commission recommended Approval. There were
- 1:11no objections at the public hearing. The ordinance passed without discussion.