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The principle of controlling solar development aside, the amendment is also important in that it seeks to remove the loopholes and abuses that we have seen from the misuse of the NSIP regime for solar applications, including artificially stringing together a series of small schemes into a big one to get over that 100-megawatt hurdle value. Where I live, a local proposal comprises a dozen different blocks of land spread out over a canvas of 15 miles by eight miles as a device to get over that NSIP threshold. That is an abuse.