Thanet District Council has received a planning application from
National Grid Nemo Link Limited which proposes to connect the
electricity systems of the UK and Belgium.
The proposed development, known as the Nemo link, includes the
installation of onshore, underground and sub-sea cables between Pegwell
Bay and the former Richborough Power Station site. It’s part of a 130km
high voltage direct current (HVDC) electrical interconnector with an
approximate capacity of 1000 megawatts (MW) extending from Zebrugge to
Thanet.
The application also proposes the erection of a converter station and
substation at the former Richborough Power Station site. Indicative
details show the converter station would be up to 30.8 metres high with
the substation measuring a maximum of 15 metres in height. The final
details of appearance, layout and landscaping will be considered at a
later stage.
As part of this application National Grid Nemo Link Ltd has prepared a
detailed environmental statement which looks at the effects of this
development on the environment.
Full details of the planning application and the environmental
statement are available to view online at UK Planning, application
reference F/TH/13/0144. This planning application is now open for public
consultation until Friday 5 April.
The application comes as part of a wider proposal for the Richborough
site, as the Nemo link requires a connection to the National Grid
network. This would be proposed through a further planning application
submitted to the Planning Inspectorate as a Nationally Significant
Infrastructure Project.
Plans for a ‘peaking plant’ have also been submitted to Dover
District Council for the land at Richborough. This includes a bank of 53
diesel generators and four 35 metre high chimneys. The plant would be
expected to run for up to 30 days a year when national energy demand is
high or if there is a supply shortfall. As part of the peaking plant
proposals, Thanet District Council has received a planning application
for supporting road and landscaping infrastructure that would be needed
to develop this site.
This application is also available to view online, reference number
F/TH/12/1016, and is open for public consultation until Friday 29 March.
Friday, 8 March 2013
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Reject it. Yet another toxic planning application nodded through by the numpties at TDC.
ReplyDeleteAccept it. With the shutting down of coal firing, near end of life for nuclear stations and intermittency of renewables, not many options left.
ReplyDeleteInteresting fact in the planning proposal for the Peaking Facility was the quantity of diesel fuel used for 720 hours running per year. It worked out at 9,000,000 litres. 282 fuel tankers of 32,000 litres capacity. In the worst case if the facility was running continuously 1 tanker would keep the site running for 3 hours.