Proposed reforms to the NSIP and legal systems are very much welcomed by many in the industry. Here, we examine some recent legal and planning challenges to proposed solar NSIPs that could have been avoided by a more efficient planning system.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has granted development consent orders (DCOs) to the Heckington Fen Solar and West Burton Solar solar PV power plants.
The three 500MW/1,000MWh BESS projects in Scotland for which Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has made final investment decisions, the largest in Europe, go a long way towards supporting the UK’s net zero ambitions.
Growing community opposition to solar developments and the high cost of capital will be pressing challenges for the European solar industry in the next year.
Renewable fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has progressed two battery energy storage system (BESS) developments in Scotland that will have a combined capacity of 1GW.
