No companies have bid for the UK’s latest round of offshore wind farms in a step seen as a serious setback for the Government’s climate change ambitions, after months of warnings from industry players.
With Rishi Sunak discussing the transition to net zero at a G20 summit in India, the lack of interest in the annual auction round put a dent in ministers’ promise to deliver 50 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030.
