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Senior Director & Head of Renewable Energy at Ardent: Infrastructure and Regeneration

Refer to Chapter 9 - Supporting green energy and the environment Question 75, 76, 77.. Proposals to increase the NSIP threshold for Onshore wind from 50MW to 100MW and to increase the threshold for solar from 50MW to 150MW. Yes this will undoubtedly remove the days of the 49MW solar farm and hopefully unlock the 50-200MW range of projects which seem to be lacking (in theory allowing more viable sites to come forward that can fit this criteria)..however I do question why different technologies need different thresholds when surely its the level of power produced that determines whether its of national significance? https://lnkd.in/emGWjc85

Jonathan Stott

Group Managing Director at Ardent

3mo

Some non-DCO scale schemes are still going to be huge but unable to benefit from the CA powers available within a DCO, so may require separate CPOs to be promoted alongside planning. Not so sure that’ll result in the desired effect

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Annabel M.

Solar Project Lead @ Rivan Industries ⚡ Converting CO2 into synthetic fuels using solar power ⛽ Born at 355.68 ppm 💭

3mo

Great point, and I think we also need to question whether tying the threshold to the level of power produced even makes sense, e.g. a 50MW solar farm would be expected to increase in footprint the further north you go, and a 50MW BESS could store 100MWh or 200MWh (or more!) depending on the technology used 🤔

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