Planning for Renewable Energy in Cornwall

Adrian Lea

Planning for Renewable Energy

• Pre-application planning advice• Mapping for large scale solar and wind proposals• Planning Performance Agreements• Community engagement & benefit• Planning Guidelines• Landscape Capacity Study• Core Strategy targets – resource & heat

mapping studies• Intelligent Energy Europe - production of a

Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP)

Solar Power

Planning for Solar PV in Cornwall

• 37 planning applications submitted• 37 granted planning permission• 130MW (50MW installed)• Proposed National Solar Centre

http://www.cornwallsolardirectory.co.uk/inward-investment.php

Wind Energy

Map of Minimum Economic Wind Speed

Wind Turbine Planning Applications

Map of Heat flow at the Surface

Geothermal Power

Hydro Power in Cornwall

Mills & historic sites

WAVE

resource

UK Wave Resource

Adrian Lea alea@cornwall.gov.uk01872 224504