Wind Power: Subsidies

(asked on 23rd June 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to her Department's press release of 18 June 2015, Changes to onshore wind subsidies, whether she plans to implement a dispensation for the Contract for Difference period to be extended to accommodate existing consented projects with delayed grid connection dates.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 2nd July 2015

As my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State made clear in the Written Ministerial Statement of 18 June 2015, Official Report, Column HCWS42, this Government is committed to ending new subsidies for onshore wind. We are currently considering how we use the tools available under the CFD to implement this manifesto commitment and will set out how to do so, in due course.

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