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Paragraph 1 I1

England and Wales

In this Schedule—

  • “battery station” means a station comprising transformers, switchgear, power conversion system (PCS) or inverter, and other ancillary equipment with each component for each battery station either—

    1. (a)

      located outside, with a concrete foundation slab or concrete piling for each of the inverters and transformers and a levelling layer of thick sand with a concrete perimeter pavement for the switchgear; or

    2. (b)

      housed together within a container sitting on a concrete foundation slab or concrete piling;

  • “East A Site” means land that forms part of the authorised development located south of Isleham in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk as shown on the works plans;

  • “East B Site” means land that forms part of the authorised development located between Worlington and Freckenham in Suffolk as shown on the works plans;

  • “energy storage” means equipment used for the storage of electrical energy;

  • “existing substation” means the existing substation at Burwell, Weirs Drove, Burwell, Cambridge CB25 0BP, owned and operated by NGET;

  • “inverter” means electrical equipment required to convert direct current power generated to alternating current;

  • “mounting structure” means a frame or rack 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: piles rammed into a pre-drilled hole, a pillar attaching to a steel ground screw, pillars fixed to a concrete foundation, or a pillar set in concrete in a pre-made hole in the ground (micro piled);

  • “permissive paths” means new access tracks providing restricted public access within the Order limits along the route shown in Annex A to the outline landscape and ecology management plan;

  • “solar module” means a solar photovoltaic panel designed to convert solar irradiance to electrical energy fitted to mounting structures;

  • “solar station” means a station comprising inverters, transformers and switchgear with each component for each solar station either—

    1. (a)

      located outside, with a concrete foundation slab for each of the inverters, transformers and switchgear and a levelling layer of thick sand with a concrete perimeter pavement; or

    2. (b)

      housed together within a container sitting on a concrete foundation slab and a levelling layer of thick sand with a concrete perimeter pavement;

  • “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;

  • “switchgear” means a combination of electrical disconnect switches, fuses or circuit breakers used to control, protect and isolate electrical equipment;

  • “transformer” means a structure containing an electrical device to transform electricity by increasing or reducing the voltage; and

  • “West A Site” means the land that forms part of authorised development located within the southern fields of the Chippenham Park Estate bordering the A11 and A14 corridor in Cambridgeshire as shown on the works plans.

Annotations

Commencement

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Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 3.8.2024, see art. 1