Investment in UK renewable energy is back on track – now let’s secure its future Opinion While the UK’s recent clean energy auction secured a record amount of offshore wind projects, there’s more to be done to sustain this investment momentum, says Samuel Pachoud The results of the recent clean energy auction – Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 7, or AR7 – were heralded by the government as a “monumental step” [...]
Investors should steer clear of Ed Miliband’s clean energy auction Opinion Labour’s upcoming AR7 renewable energy auction risks locking in higher energy costs for decades, as political support for net zero falters and public resistance to green subsidies grows, says Maurice Cousins Today applications open for the government’s latest renewable energy auction, Allocation Round 7 (AR7). In Whitehall, it is just another technocratic acronym. But for [...]