🚨 Call to Action: Oppose LB1204 🚨
LB1204 is a BAD BILL, and it needs public OPPOSITION NOW. SHARE SHARE SHARE!!!
While it’s being presented as a nameplate capacity tax bill, LB1204 actually creates statewide regulations for wind and solar projects, stripping counties of meaningful local control.
NEBRASKANS HAVE MADE IT CLEAR TIME AND TIME AGAIN THEY DON’T WANT SOLAR AND WIND FARMS SHOVED DOWN THEIR THROATS!!!
📍 Hearing Information
🕜 Thursday, February 12th, 1:30 PM
📍 Natural Resources Committee – Room 1023
📄 LB1204 will be the 3rd bill heard
✅ What you can do to stop this bill:
🟢Testify
🟢Email the Natural Resources Committee
🟢Show Up
AND
🟢🟢🟢 SHARE FAR AND WIDE!
OPPOSE 🔴 LB1204 – Adopt the Nameplate Capacity Tax Facility Standards Act and change provisions relating to property tax exemptions and the nameplate capacity tax
Statement of Intent: *LB1204 intends to establish uniform standards for the permitting of wind, solar, and energy storage facilities, while increasing the share of nameplate capacity tax revenue distributed to counties where such facilities are located.
LB1204 creates the Nameplate Capacity Tax Facility Standards Act, which establishes standards for setbacks, noise, decommissioning, shadow flicker, lighting, road use, and visual screening. The bill also includes agricultural protections for affected landowners. Permit application procedures and timelines are established for county review of proposed facilities.
LB1204 expands the nameplate capacity tax to include energy storage resources co-located with renewable generation facilities and changes the distribution of tax revenue for facilities permitted after the operative date, increasing the county share from approximately twenty-two percent to ninety-five percent.*
Download the Bill Introduction and Submit an Online Comment here:
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=63645
** If you can not join in person, please submit online testimony. 🔴 The online comments must be submitted and confirmed by Thursday, February 12th, 2026 at 8:00 AM! 🔴
If you plan to show up and testify in person you do not need to be an expert on this, just be respectful and explain why this bill concerns you.
Calm and thoughtful testimony carries REAL WEIGHT! **
Here are only some of the regulation provisions:
• Imposes one-size-fits-all statewide setbacks (1.1× turbine height for wind, 200 ft for solar), ignoring local conditions
• Limits sound standards to 50 decibels, preventing counties from responding to real impacts and recognized studies for safety
• Does NOT allow escrow accounts for decommissioning (only surety bonds or letters of credit)
• Decommissioning requirements apply mainly to above-ground structures only (with only 36 inches for base)
• Visual barriers can only be required if deemed “economically practicable”
• Shadow flicker limits are capped at 30 hours per year, regardless of local impact
• Counties are not allowed to request additional information beyond what’s listed in statute
• If a county denies a permit in the “best interest of the public,” a developer can appeal, win if minimum standards were met, and have their attorney fees paid by the county
Local land use decisions should be made locally, not dictated by statewide mandates that tie the hands of counties!!!
ALSO Email the Natural Resources Committee:
Sen. Tom Brandt, Chairperson – tbrandt@leg.ne.gov
Sen. Stan Clouse – SClouse@leg.ne.gov
Sen. Danielle Conrad – dconrad@leg.ne.gov
Sen. Barry DeKay – bdekay@leg.ne.gov
Sen. Jana Hughes – jhughes@leg.ne.gov
Sen. Margo Juarez – MJuarez@leg.ne.gov
Sen. Mike Moser – mmoser@leg.ne.gov
Sen. Jane Raybould – Jraybould@leg.ne.gov
🟢🔴🟢🔴 Please take a few minutes today to submit a comment in opposition and share! 🟢🔴🟢🔴
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