Earlierthis month the Department of Energy and Climate change issued an updatedproposal for the subsidy levels under the impending Contracts for Difference(CfD) support scheme.

The mostimportant change was a £5/MWh increase for offshore wind farms in 2018/19, withthe difference made up for clawing back support in the nearer term for onshorewind and PV.

Aside fromthe increase, the CfD scheme has some advantages over the existing RenewablesObligation scheme, which will be phased out in 2017, BNEF says.

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