{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/byers-gill-solar-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/byers-gill-solar-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/934",
  "legislation_title": "The Byers Gill Solar Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/byers-gill-solar-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule-\n“balance of solar plant” means inverters, transformers, and switch gear and would be either—\n(a) solar stations, each being a station comprising centralised inverters, transformers and switch gear with each component for each solar station either—\n(i) a “solar station” located outside, with a concrete foundation slab or placed on metal skids for each of the inverters and transformers and switch gear; or\n(ii) housed together within a container sitting on a concrete foundation slab or placed on metal skids; or\n(b) string inverters attached either to mounting structures or a ground mounted frame switchgear and transformers on a concrete foundation slab or placed on metal skids;\n“electrical cables” means—\n(a) cables of differing types and voltages installed for the purposes of conducting electricity, auxiliary cables, cables connecting to direct current (DC) boxes, earthing cables and optical fibre cables;\n(b) excavations to install trenching, including storage of excavated material;\n(c) provision of ducting or alternative means of conducting media including jointing pits hardstanding adjoining the jointing pits, combiner boxes, fibre bays, cable ducts, cable protections, joint protection, manholes, kiosks, marker posts, underground cable marker, tiles and tape, send and receive pits for horizontal directional drilling, trenching, lighting, and a put or container to capture fluids associated with drilling;\n“energy storage” means equipment used for the storage of electrical energy;\n“National Grid substation” means the existing 132kV substation located near Stockton-On-Tees owned and operated by National Grid;\n“inverter” means electrical equipment required to convert direct current power to alternating current;\n“mounting structure” means a frame or rack made of galvanised steel, anodised aluminium or other material design to support the solar panels and mounted on piles driven into the ground, piles rammed into a pre-drilled hole, a pillar attaching to a steel ground screw, or pillars fixed to a concrete foundation;\n“panel areas” means panel areas A to F shown labelled as Work No. 1 on the works plans;\n“permissive paths” means new access tracks providing restricted public access within the Order limits along the routes shown on the street works, public rights of way and access plans;\n“solar panel” means a solar photovoltaic panel or module designed to convert solar irradiance to electrical energy;\n“substation” means a substation containing electrical equipment required to switch, transform, convert electricity and provide reactive power compensation with welfare facilities, means of access and other associated facilities;;\n“switch gear” means a combination of electrical disconnect switches, fuses or circuit breakers used to control, protect, and isolate electrical equipment; and\n“transformer” means a structure serving to transform electricity to a higher voltage.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 14.8.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/934/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:25.595636+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}