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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms

Fishers on the beach with offshore wind turbines in the distance at the Scroby Sands wind farm near Great Yarmouth
Renewable energy companies had called on the government to take the higher costs into account by adjusting the maximum price they could receive. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

No new offshore windfarms will go ahead in the UK after the latest government auction, in what critics have called the biggest clean energy policy failure in almost a decade.

None of the companies hoping to build big offshore windfarms in UK waters took part in the government’s annual auction, which awards contracts to generate renewable electricity for 15 years at a set price.

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