Contracts for Difference could be distorting market, warns competition watchdog

Jessica Shankleman
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CMA confirms it is investigating concerns that Contracts for Difference regime and Capacity Market may be uncompetitive

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to investigate whether the government's new policies to decarbonise the energy sector are distorting competition in the industry. The CMA today announced...

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