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Labour's Alan Whitehead argues that after several attempts to get it right, the government's capacity market is still subsidising high carbon power and failing to deliver on its strategic goals

The results of the 2016 capacity auction were released last week and I suppose it is a sign of the suppressed expectations we now have that the slipping of one new CCGT plant under the wire, along with...

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