The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) has announced that Contracts for Difference payments have started for two Scottish onshore wind farms, Tralorg and Solwaybank.
LCCC said both projects had reached the milestone of Operational Conditions Precedent (OCP) and so satisfied the eligibility criteria to start generating power and receive support.
The 18.8MW Tralorg wind farm, located in South Ayrshire on the south west coast of Scotland, was acquired by RPMI Railpen in 2019, one of the UK’s top five pension funds, from BayWa, which constructed the project and will asset manage it.
The 30MW Solwaybank wind farm (
pictured) in Dumfries and Galloway is owned by The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited and was constructed by RES who will retain a management role.
BEIS ) published its response to the consultation on the proposed amendments for allocation round four (
AR4 ) Contracts for Difference (
Response ).
The Response confirms most of the amendments proposed by BEIS in its spring consultation but makes some new adjustments as to how future CfD rounds will operate. Additionally, a further consultation regarding changes to the Supply Chain Plans (
SCP ) was published, as well as an impact assessment of the costs and benefits of the amendments for AR4.
Industry should note the headline amendments to AR4, in particular: the new pots , changes relating to negative pricing, capacity caps and the amended SCP policy. This bulletin explores each of these amendments in detail.