Contracts for Difference - should it stay or should it go?
18-Jul-2022 16:20:47 | Development, Offshore wind, Procurement & supply chain
The biggest ever round of the UK government’s flagship renewables auction scheme was finalised last week with offshore wind emerging as one of the sector’s biggest winners. Fundamentally, these auctions represent another positive step in the longer-term realisation of the UK's offshore wind capacity. It will, however, be..
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'Slow down to speed up' approach needed to hit ambitious renewables targets
20-Jun-2022 12:18:57 | Onshore wind, Development, Offshore wind, Procurement & supply chain
The European wind industry needs to slow down in its attempts to further drive down the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and scale back on building bigger turbines. This, at least, is the view of K2 Management, a leading renewable energy engineering and project management consultancy, which believes that unless the inexorable..
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Levelling up wind industry economics could protect supply chain
09-Jun-2022 21:14:23 | Development, Offshore wind, Procurement & supply chain, Pre-development
Renewable energy demand is increasing, most recently driven by a determination to reduce reliance on Russian oil and gas with a longer-term goal to achieve hugely ambitious net-zero targets set by governments all over the world. Ambitious pledges are being announced frequently – most recently the combined promise from..
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Greener wind supply chains are achievable, but the odds need shifting in favour of developers
26-Jan-2022 09:00:00 | Offshore wind, Procurement & supply chain
The RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind (GOW) event in London, organised by RenewableUK, heralded the return of in-person events for the industry, and for the first time in over 18 months, the halls were buzzing with customers, colleagues and suppliers ready to do face-to-face business again. Alok Sharma, president of COP26, was..
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