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Even more so, once designated an NSIP, the private promoter—in my local case, an Australian merchant bank—is awarded CPO powers to confiscate British farmland for those whose only purpose is to collateralise the countryside. I can see that it may be in the landowner’s private interest to sign up for solar; on normal arable economics, a farmer would do well to earn £200 an acre from the fruits of his labours, having invested millions in plant and equipment and subjected himself to the weather. So converting it to a guaranteed payment sounds like good business, even if they get to sit on the beach, index linked, for 40 years.