Overarching national policy statement for energy (EN-1)

National Policy Statement EN-1

Department of Energy and Climate Change, 2011
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Supplement

Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning

Series

National Policy Statement

Abstract

Sets out the Government’s policy for delivery of major energy infrastructure. Used with other NPSs i.e. fossil fuel electricity generation (EN-2); renewable electricity generation (both onshore and offshore) (EN-3); gas supply infrastructure and gas and oil pipelines (EN-4); the electricity transmission and distribution network (EN-5); and, nuclear electricity generation (EN-6), by the Infrastructure Planning Commission when it makes decisions on applications for development consent for nationally significant energy infrastructure.

History

Superseded by November 2023 edition. July 2011 edition. Must be read with the following documents: EN-2, EN-3, EN-4, EN-5, EN-6 Volume 1 and EN-6 Volume 2.

ISBN

9780108510779

Subjects

  • Planning and development
  • Other planning disciplines
  • Environmental planning/land
  • Climate change
  • Power supply/energy

Publisher History

The Department brings together much of the Climate Change Group, previously housed within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), with the Energy Group from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). From July 2016, DECC became part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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