LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Britain must review its refusal to grant development consent for a high-voltage undersea power cable project linking Britain and France, London’s High Court ruled on Tuesday.
Investment firm Aquind, which says its undersea cable linking England and Normandy would be able to transmit 16,000,000 MWh of electricity each year, took legal action after then-Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng refused consent in January 2022.
Judge Nathalie Lieven said in a written ruling on Tuesday that Kwarteng failed to take into account evidence about an alternative location for a substation in England and wrongly applied the business department’s planning policies.
Aquind’s director Richard Glasspool said
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