{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/steeple-renewables-project-order-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1086",
  "legislation_title": "The Steeple Renewables Project Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/steeple-renewables-project-order-2026",
  "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) inverter / transformer stations, each being a station comprising centralised inverters, transformers and switch gear combined as a solar conversion unit or separated with each component for each station either—\n(i) 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“battery energy storage” means equipment used for the storage of electrical energy by battery;\n“CCTV” means a closed circuit television security system;\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“inverter” means electrical equipment required to convert direct current power generated by the solar panels to alternating current power;\n“mounting structure” means a frame or rack with posts made of galvanised steel or other material pushed into the ground to support the solar panels;\n“solar panel” means a solar photovoltaic panel designed to convert solar irradiance to direct current electrical energy fitted to a mounted structure;\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“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 containing electrical switch gear serving to transform electricity generated by the solar panels and imported and exported by the batteries to a higher voltage.",
  "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/2026/1086/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:45.735898+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."
}