Lack of interest was widely expected after government failed to heed warnings about soaring costs
What went wrong at UK’s offshore wind auction?Nils Pratley: does the government still have an offshore wind strategy?
No new offshore windfarms will go ahead in the UK after the latest government auction, in what critics have called the biggest clean energy policy failure in almost a decade.
None of the companies hoping to build big offshore windfarms in UK waters took part in the government’s annual auction, which awards contracts to generate renewable electricity for 15 years at a set price.
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