Chart of the week | Risky business: forecasting revenues for green power

Our recently published Green Power Forecast provides a five-year outlook of revenue streams available to green generators. We forecast prices for wind, solar and baseload projects, providing a theoretical maximised revenue stack for comparison against PPA offers.

Our Chart of the Week shows an annual forecast of revenues for onshore wind projects with high voltage connections to the distribution network, using a national average figure for embedded benefits. Values are given for export-only revenue; however, most sites will also be in receipt of subsidy payments from either the Feed-in Tariff or Renewables Obligation schemes.  

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