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Onshore electricity generation - Electricity Act threshold: summary consultation responses

Published: 8 October 2026
From: Minister for Public Finance, +5 more … Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform, Director for Planning, Director-General Economy, Director-General Net Zero, Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Energy
Directorate: Planning Directorate, +1 more … Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic: Building, planning and design, Energy, Environment and climate change
ISBN: 9781807755140

A summary of responses received to our consultation on increasing the threshold for applications under the Electricity Act.

Consultation

Table 7 shows the number of respondents per respondent category.
Respondent Category	Number of Responses
Community and Individuals	140
Development, Property and Land Management Sector and Agents	31
Key Agency and Other Public Sector	5
Professional Representative Bodies	5
Planning Authority	22
Third Sector	11
Total	214

The following lists organisations under each category (where permission has been given to name the organisation).

Asper
AtkinsRéalis Scotland Planning team
Centrica PLC
CWP Energy Limited
Energy UK
ESB
FRV Powertek
GreenPower (International) Ltd
Highland Skies Ltd
Ian Kelly Planning Consultancy Ltd obo Kathrin Haltiner, Dale House, Westerdale, Caithness
Koehler Renewable Energy UK Ltd
Lightsource bp
Longmuir Energy Project Information Centre
MSEnvision
Muirhall Energy Limited
Nadara
OnPath Energy Limited
Orsted
RES Group
RWE Renewables UK Limited
Scottish Power Energy Networks
Scottish Renewables
ScottishPower Renewables
Solar Energy Scotland
SSE - This response is on behalf of SSE’s energy businesses.
SSEN Transmission
Statkraft UK
Tina Marshall Consultancy Ltd.
Vattenfall
Wind2

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