The regulator said it will look at whether the rules over granting compulsory access to land for survey purposes should be widened to include transmission assets.
Under the current licence, a developer can only exercise its right of entry if it is for the purpose of seeing whether the land is suitable for construction or extension of a generating station.
The German developer had hoped to gain compulsory access to land to determine its suitability for onshore transmission infrastructure for Triton Knoll.
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