The planning inspection has accepted a planning application from independent renewable energy company RES for a 400 MW of the solar energy power plant together with 200 MW of energy storage.
The Nottinghamshire Steeple Renewables project is located near the West Burton Power Station set out and will use existing schedule capacity and infrastructure in the area.
The Steeple Renewables project comprises a maximum of 400 MW to generate solar energy and a 200 MW Battery Energy Storage System (Bess). After being accepted, the development is in the pre -examination phase of the process of the development assignment order (DCO) process.
Projects with a generating capacity of more than 100 MW (revised from 50 MW) are classified as nationally important infrastructure projects (NSIPs) and must obtain a DCO from the Minister of Energy, instead of being approved at the level of the local authorities.
DCO Project Manager of RES ‘Will Will Bruggen said that the developer is grateful for the feedback that it received during the consultation process and sketched some ways in which the company responded.
He said: “We have made significant changes to our original proposals, including the reduction in the land area used for solar panels and associated infrastructure and increasing buffers between homes and the panels.”
Although the consultation is now concluded, interested parties can share their opinion about the project with the planning inspection while it is in the pre-examination phase.
The research body will then have six months to investigate the application and to view comments before he makes the recommendation to the State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband. Miliband’s decision is not expected until mid -2026.
RES is in the spotlight this week, after it had won a case that was brought against his longhedge Solar Farm; The details of this were explained by Melanie GrimShaw, a partner, and Ryan Williams, an employee, at National Law Firm Mills & Reeve LLP in a contributed blog on Wednesday.
Yesterday, the developer submitted a planning application to the Energy Constent Unit (ECU) of the Scottish government for a Bess of 150 MW that is located in East Ayrshire, the second Bess of this size that must be brought forward by RES in Scotland in as many months.
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