Renewable Energy: Scotland

(asked on 23rd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide a ringfence for early-stage technologies within the Contracts for Difference mechanism to support for Scotland’s wave, tidal and floating wind sectors.


Answered by
Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait
Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 1st July 2020

The next Contracts for Difference allocation round is planned for 2021. A consultation on potential changes closed on 29 May. We are now considering submissions, including from those sectors requesting a ringfenced or minimum allocation, and will publish a response in due course.

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