Subsidy-free CfDs: a 'great wind farm tax con' or the key to delivering cost-effective decarbonisation?

James Murray
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Renewables industry hits back at attack on subsidy-free CfD proposal, arguing that the only way to deliver a clean and stable energy system at the least cost is to allow all renewables technologies to compete

"Revealed: the great wind farm tax con", thundered the Sunday Telegraph front page, above a story detailing how ministers were being "accused of planning a U-turn that would see consumers fund new onshore...

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