Lump sums among ideas in a government-ordered review to speed up infrastructure projects.
The government ordered the review in July last year as part of plans to improve the transmission of renewable energy, including from wind farms and new nuclear stations, to homes and businesses.
It said people living near transmission pylons, the larger lines that connect electricity from where it is generated to regional substations, should get lump sum payments from operators. The cost of compensation would be lower than building cables underground, it added, which it said was between five and ten times more than overhead lines. Offshore cables were even more expensive, it noted.Dame Priti Patel recently took part in a protest against proposed pylons in her Essex constituency
Currently, these are struck project-by-project and paid through consumer bills on a nationwide basis. New pylon schemes have encountered opposition from some Conservative MPs, particularly in East Anglia, where a number of large projects are under way to bring clean power onshore.
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