1GW photo voltaic NSIP launches first session section

UK-based renewables developer Parts Inexperienced has introduced the launch of the Nice North Highway photo voltaic and power storage park’s public session stage.

Located northwest of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, the park has a possible technology   capability of round 800MW.

Resulting from its proposed technology capability being over 50MW, the photo voltaic park is assessed as a nationally important infrastructure venture (NSIP).

Due to this fact, as soon as the general public session has taken place, Parts Inexperienced will ship an software to the division of power safety and internet zero (DESNZ) for a improvement consent order (DCO,) anticipated to be submitted in Spring 2025.

Till then, nevertheless, the developer will proceed with the primary stage, working public classes 29 January to Saturday 10 February and as a result of end on 27 February 2024.

Mark Noone, venture director for Nice North Highway Photo voltaic Park stated: “Our plans for GNR Photo voltaic Park will align with these set by the British Power Safety Technique, which goals to extend the UK’s photo voltaic capability fivefold by 2035. With an put in capability of over 1GW, GNR Photo voltaic Park would contribute 1.5% in the direction of this goal.”

Obstacles forward

After Parts Inexperienced first unveiled the early-stage plans for the Nice North Highway photo voltaic park in October 2023, it has maintained its course, reaching first stage session inside its beforehand outlined timeline.

Nonetheless, the developer’s software for a DCO might delay stated timeline, because the UK authorities famous in February 2023 that DCOs have gone from taking 2.6 years to course of to 4.2 years.

The next July, the federal government launched consultations on reforms for NSIP software processes, together with the procurement of DCOs.

The doc launched by DESNZ acknowledged that it intends to make the NSIP course of “higher, sooner, greener, fairer and extra resilient by 2025”, hopefully coinciding with Component Greens software timeline.

The venture can have some competitors as effectively, with Danish energy firm Ørsted having introduced its enterprise into the UK renewable power market in September 2023.

The agency is planning a fellow NSIP within the type of a 740MW photo voltaic park in Nottinghamshire, the identical county that Component Greens has planted its Nice North Highway Photo voltaic Park.