Three offshore wind farms awarded Contracts for Difference last year have passed the milestone delivery requirements stipulated by the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC).
The projects are Dong Energy’s 1.2GW Hornsea 1, ScottishPower Renewables’ 714MW East Anglia 1 and SSE Renewables, SDIC Power and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’s 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm.
The milestone announcements come a month after LCCC terminated the CfD for Mainstream Renewable Power’s 448MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland.
Mainstream strongly disputes the termination and is currently in arbitration with LCCC.
The LCCC added that four onshore wind farms, one energy from waste project and a solar plant have also passed CfD delivery milestones.
The onshore projects are RES’s 30MW Solwaybank, RWE’s 26.65MW Bad a Cheo, Brookfield Renewable UK’s 18.8MW Tralorg and Infinergy’s 39.10MW Tom nan Clach.
The energy from waste plant is the 45MW K3 CHP facility, while the solar plant is Lightsource’s 11.94MW Charity Farm project.
The LCCC was set up by the government to act as counterparty to the CfD contracts.
The milestone requirement has to be achieved within 12 months of entering into the CfD contract with LCCC and can be achieved in two ways.
These are the project commitment route – demonstrating contracts are in place to buy all material equipment for the generation and export of electricity – or spending 10% of the expected development and construction costs.
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