{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heckington-fen-solar-park-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-1n1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heckington-fen-solar-park-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-1n1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/85",
  "legislation_title": "The Heckington Fen Solar Park Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heckington-fen-solar-park-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“community orchard” means a new orchard within the Order limits in the area shown on the works plan;\n“energy storage station” means a station comprising transformers, switchgear, power conversion system (PCS) or inverter, and other ancillary equipment with each component either—\n(a)located outside, sitting on either ground bearing or piled reinforced concrete foundation slabs; or\n(b)housed together within a container sitting on either a ground bearing or piled reinforced concrete foundation slab;\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, control cables, security cables, communication cables, and optical fibre cables; and\n(b)works associated with cable laying including cable sealing ends, jointing pits, hardstanding adjoining the jointing pits, combiner boxes, link boxes, fibre bays, cable ducts, cable protection, joint protection, manholes, kiosks, marker posts, underground cable marker, tiles and tape, send and receive pits for horizontal directional drilling, trenching, lighting, and a pit or container to capture fluids associated with drilling;\n“energy storage” means equipment used for the storage of electrical energy;\n“existing substation” means the existing substation at Bicker Fen, Bicker, Lincolnshire, PE20 3BQ, owned and operated by NGET;\n“inverter” means electrical equipment required to convert direct current power generated to alternating current;\n“mounting structure” means a frame or rack or table made of galvanised steel or other material designed to support the solar modules and mounted on piles driven into the ground by one of the following methods—\n(a)piles rammed into a hole;\n(b)a pillar attaching to a steel ground screw; or\n(c)a pillar set in concrete in a pre-made hole in the ground (micro piled);\n“solar module” means a solar photovoltaic panel designed to convert solar irradiance to electrical energy fitted to mounting structures;\n“solar station” means a station comprising inverters, transformers, switchgear and associated ancillary and control equipment with each component either—\n(a)located outside, sitting on either ground bearing or piled reinforced concrete foundation slabs; or\n(b)housed together within a container sitting on either a ground bearing or piled reinforced concrete foundation slab;\n“substation” means a compound, containing electrical equipment required to switch, transform, convert electricity and provide reactive power compensation mounted on a reinforced foundation slab or piling;\n“switchgear” 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 containing an electrical device to transform electricity by increasing or reducing the voltage.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 17.2.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/85/schedule/1/paragraph/1n1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:15.551430+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."
}