UK’s Sixth Contracts For Difference Round Open
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.
This is the sub-heading.
The UK Government has opened the sixth allocation round (AR6) of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme on 27 March and will continue until 19 April 2024. The round will see a range of renewable technologies, including offshore wind compete for the government’s support.
This paragraph outlines how to apply and when the results will be published.
Applications may be submitted via National Grid ESO’s EMR Portal. The results are expected to be published at some point this summer.
The fifth round was a bit of a disaster for offshore wind and hopefully, it will be better this time, as the government will be upping prices.
At least it appears that Iberdrola will be bidding for two wind farm in their East Anglia Array, as I wrote about in Iberdrola Preparing Two East Anglia Offshore Wind Projects For UK’s Sixth CfD Round.
In The Crown Estate Refines Plans For Celtic Sea Floating Wind, I wrote about developments in the Celtic Sea, where contracts should be signed this year.
2024 could be a bumper year for new wind farm contracts.
The Anonymous Widower 
We keep being told wind is cheaper than gas yet in AR5 no one was interested in bidding as the subsidy wasn’t high enough. Its now been nearly doubled for AR6 yet no politician will ever admit that moving to net zero using renewables is going to cost a lot more than a fossil fueled based generation. Lets see how much interest we get this time but i will play my stuck record that the transmission system need reinforcing first as consumers are being charged a lot extra on their bills as wind has to be constrained off whenever its more than c8GW now so adding more is just forcing up constraints costs currently.
Comment by Nicholas Lewis | March 29, 2024 |