subsidy-free

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | En-Route to market in 2020?

    Published on the 14 January was the latest update of Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). In summary, it provided an overview of current and planned green energy projects across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In this week’s Chart of the week, we look at the government’s Renewable Energy Planning Database. It discusses...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | Corporate PPAs: please form an orderly queue

    With the promise of long-term fixed price agreements with creditworthy consumers, corporate power purchase agreements (CPPAs) have become one of the most talked about routes to market for new subsidy-free generators. CPPAs provide for the sale of electricity from a developer to a final consumer typically using a supplier to...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | Subsidy-free renewables – thoughts from the industry?

    Cornwall Insight hosted an event, Into the unknown: evaluating drivers of low carbon investment in a subsidy-free world, on 17 October. It explored the future of support for renewable power generation. As well as the significant gap between current deployment levels and what must be delivered to meet decarbonisation goals. Throughout...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | The policy gap – can it be met by subsidy-free renewables?

    New renewables capacity deployment in the UK is likely to slow with the closure of the Renewables Obligation (RO) and Feed-in Tariff (FiT) schemes. This is against a backdrop of the CCC's warning the fourth and fifth carbon budgets will be missed. All while “subsidy-free” renewables struggle to gain traction...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | Subsidy-free renewables: myth to reality?

    The development of new renewables faces what would once have seemed an existential challenge – a distinct lack of available subsidies. However, we know subsidy-free renewables projects are slowly coming to fruition, particularly for solar. In this week's Chart of the week, we take a look at the value that...