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UK Renewable Energy Planning Database

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UK Renewable Energy Planning Database

DESNZ (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) publishes the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), tracking UK renewable electricity and storage projects through the planning system, as CSV/Excel downloads from a gov.uk page (file names change between releases).

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Required under OGL v3.0: acknowledge the source of the Information and, where possible, link to the licence. If no specific attribution statement is given, the licence's default is: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."

Coverage

UK renewable electricity and storage projects over the provider's stated 150kW threshold (the page says that threshold "was 1MW until 2021, at which point it was lowered to 150kW"), through inception, planning, construction, operation and decommissioning stages. The page says: "The database is updated during the month following the end of each quarter."

Verdict

CSV/Excel downloads, linked from a gov.uk page (file names change between releases), for DESNZ's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). The page says it "tracks the progress of UK renewable electricity projects over 150kW through the planning system" and "The database is updated during the month following the end of each quarter." Licensed OGL-UK-3.0: "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated" Distinct from the uk-energy-trends entry (DESNZ's Energy Trends statistics). Rate limits: Not stated (static files). Signal Lab links only.

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