Paragraph 1 InterpretationI1

In this Schedule—

• “auxiliary equipment” means Low Voltage AC distribution board, Low Voltage DC distribution board, Battery and Charger panel, the power panel for security lighting, Protection and Control Panel and Telecom and Metering Panel and lightning protection;

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

• “battery energy storage systems” (BESS) means all components within Work No. 2;

• “BESS Enclosure” means the components detailed within Work No. 2(a) and (b);

• “BESS-Solar Station Compound” means all components within Work No. 2(a) to (e) and Work No. 1(b);

• “DC/DC converter” means an electrical device that converts the voltage of the direct current (DC) into another level of voltage;

• “electrical cables” means—

  1. (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; and

  2. (b)

     works associated with cable laying including jointing pits, hardstanding adjoining the jointing pits, link boxes, combiner 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;

• “equipment storage” means a total area of F11,200m ² for either—

  1. (a)

     open storage covered by a canopy for weather protection;

  2. (b)

     the use of storage containers; and/or

  3. (c)

     the provision of parking areas and associated infrastructure;

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

• “mounting structure” means a rack made with galvanised steel and/or magnelis or other material designed 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 concrete foundations of concrete ballasts and includes drives and motors;

• “National Grid Cottam substation” means the existing 400kV substation at Cottam Power Station owned and operated by National Grid;

• “permissive paths” means new access tracks providing restricted public access within the Order limits along the route shown on the streets, rights of way and access plans;

• “solar farm control centre” means an operations and maintenance building;

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

• “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 within 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 and convert electricity and provide reactive power compensation;

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

• “transformer” means a structure containing an electrical device to transform electricity to a different voltage.