Continuing Cornwall Insight’s contribution to improving low carbon policy mechanisms, in a letter with wide support from the industry, today we have written to BEIS advocating for the introduction of a CfD Floor structure. We developed this innovative model during 2018. We believe that it would reignite investment in onshore renewables, minimise the risk of subsidy, and put the UK in the best position to pursue its stretching climate ambitions.
In a letter with wide support from the industry, today we have written to BEIS advocating for the introduction of a CfD Floor structure.
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