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Representation by EDF Energy Renewables Limited (EDF Energy Renewables Limited)

Date submitted
12 September 2024
Submitted by
Other statutory consultees
  1. Part of the land comprised in a solar project which is being developed by EDF Renewables Solar Limited and EDF Energy Renewables Limited (the “EDF Solar Site”) is included in the Order Land. EDF Energy Renewables Limited is a statutory undertaker as it holds an electricity generation licence. 2. EDF has secured rights over the EDF Solar Site under two Option Agreements dated 9 September 2022 (held by EDF Energy Renewables Limited) and 24 November 2022 (held by EDF Renewables Solar Limited). 3. EPL 001 Limited’s draft DCO provides compulsory purchase powers to acquire rights over the EDF Solar Site. The relevant area is intended to be used for the installation of cables for the benefit of the EDF solar project, habitat enhancement, and a point of vehicular access from the adjoining highway. 4. It is imperative, in the interest of the safety of EDF’s solar project and the wider public interest in the role of the solar project as a generator of renewable electricity that the NSIP project should not interfere with the construction, operation and maintenance of the EDF solar project. 5. EDF believes that ELP 001 Limited’s requirement for the use of the EDF Solar Site can exist in tandem with its own requirements and that ELP 001 Limited should engage in full and meaningful negotiations with EDF to document such arrangements. EDF has provided the EPL 001 Limited with details of the interaction between the NSIP and the EDF solar project and draft documentation to address the interaction. However, at the date of this Written Representation, EDF has not received a response from EPL 001 Limited. Such an arrangement is critical to this matter as the use of compulsory purchase powers that could remove EDF’s rights would be wholly inappropriate as set out above. 6. EDF will continue to engage with the ELP 001 Limited regarding its concerns throughout the DCO examination process in order to seek to resolve its concerns amicably.