“It was clear that proposed changes to onshore wind planning in England introduced increased risk in the process,” says Graham Davey, Vattenfall’s project manager for the Nocton Fen Wind Energy project. “Stopping the scheme now is a sensible decision.”

Nocton Fen was part of a planning process – known as Nationally Significant Infrastructure Planning – designed to control the development of strategically important energy infrastructure such as large onshore wind farms.

After