{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/helios-renewable-energy-project-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1372",
  "legislation_title": "The Helios Renewable Energy Project Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/helios-renewable-energy-project-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 switchgear, comprising either—\n(a) field stations being a station comprising centralised inverters, transformers and switchgear with each component for each field station comprising either—\n(i) a “field station” located outside, with a concrete foundation on a gravel sub-base for each of the inverters and transformers and switchgear; or\n(ii) housed together within a container sitting on a concrete foundation on a gravel sub-base; or\n(b) string inverters attached either to mounting structures or a ground mounted frame switchgear and transformers on a concrete foundation on a gravel sub-base;\n“battery energy storage” means equipment used for the storage and discharge of electrical energy by battery;\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; and\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 trenchless installation techniques, trenching, lighting, and a put or container to capture fluids associated with drilling;\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 provide for single-axis tracking, mounted on piles driven into the ground, piles rammed into a pre-drilled hole, or pillars fixed to a concrete foundation;\n“permissive paths” means new access tracks providing restricted public access within the Order limits along the routes shown on the access and rights of way plan;\n“solar panel” means a solar photovoltaic panel or module designed to convert solar irradiance to electrical energy;\n“substation” means a compound 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“switchgear” means a combination of electrical disconnect switches, fuses or circuit breakers used to control, protect, and isolate electrical equipment;\n“transformer” means a structure serving to transform electricity to a higher voltage; and\n“trenchless installation techniques” means the installation of new electrical cabling and/or associated equipment by means of boring techniques including horizontal directional drilling, auger boring and micro-tunnelling.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1372/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:07:54.016827+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."
}