Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 16 March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will amend the draft National Policy Statement on Electricity Networks Infrastructure in the light of the recent research on bird strikes on overhead electricity lines.
A section on bird strike on overhead lines was added to the National Policy Statement for Electricity Networks Infrastructure (EN-5) before the consultation on the revised NPSs last year as a result of work done on the Appraisal of Sustainability for the Energy NPSs. We are not aware of any recent research on bird strikes that would warrant a further change to EN-5 and we did not receive any requests to consider any research during the consultation, which closed on
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