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What are the effects on local/public acceptability of offshore wind, CCUS and other forms of low carbon generation development with respect to the cumulative impacts of onshore infrastructure related to deployment (e.g. grid etc.)?

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Beis areas research interest interim update 2020

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