This morning the government announced that it has declined to support the building of new offshore wind farms that could have powered millions of homes, and reduced both our energy bills and our dependence on autocratic petrostates such as Russia and Saudi Arabia.
No announcement went out in those terms, of course – but the results of the latest round of contracts for difference (CfD) allocations, published this morning, amount to the same thing. No new offshore wind capacity will be built as a result of this year’s CfDs, at a time when energy security and carbon reduction could hardly be more urgent.
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