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Solar Power: Electricity Generation

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 20 March 2025UIN 37759

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35004 on Solar Power: Electricity Generation, when his Department announced its plan to bring forward legislative proposals to increase the threshold for solar projects determined under the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project planning regime from 50MW to 100MW.

Answered by Michael Shanks

The Government’s intention to increase the threshold above which solar projects must be determined under the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project regime was announced in its response to an 8-week consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. This was published on 12 December 2024.

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