The UK government needs to resolve the “difficult issues” around onshore wind before it can stage another CfD support round, said energy minister Claire Perry as she put the prospect of large-scale deployment in Scotland firmly back on the agenda.

Perry told Recharge the Westminster government in London “is working really hard to see if we can put new rules in place within the CfD (contracts-for-difference) structure to allow deployment of onshore wind in those parts of the UK which are keen to see it, and it isn’t controversial”.