By Ritesh Gupta

The deal, signed between NATS, SSE and Vattenfall, secures the funding to modify two Raytheon-manufactured radar sites – Lowther Hill and Great Dun Fell. This development will pave the way for a mitigation service in northern England and southern Scotland.

Under planning rules, NATS must be consulted on all wind turbine applications in the U. K. With this deal, a technical modification, developed in a three-year programme called Project RM, can be made to the radar.

Project RM is the result of three years’ work between NATS, Aviation Investment Fund Company, developers, DECC, Crown Estate, Scottish Government and radar manufacturer Raytheon. A meeting to explain how the mitigation tool can be applied is scheduled for next month.