Government provides £22m boost to CfD clean energy auction pot

Cecilia Keating
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Funding boost for Allocation Round 5 of the CfD auction scheme aims to help address rising costs for clean energy developers

The government has today increased the amount of money up for grabs in the current clean energy contract auction by 10 per cent, as Ministers look to respond to industry warnings that without additional...

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