SSE warns UK support review could hobble onshore wind

Utility SSE says the UK government’s decision to hold an early review of onshore wind support levels has cast a shadow over future developments.

Earlier this week the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) stuck to plans for a 10% cut to onshore wind subsidies under its Renewable Obligation Certificate (ROC) scheme, but signalled that the level could change during 2014.

The industry had hoped for a pledge lasting until 2017, when the ROC scheme will be replaced.

In a quarterly management update to investors, SSE says: “The decision to limit the guarantee of 0.9 Renewable Obligation Certificates to electricity from onshore wind farms commissioned between April 2013 and March 2014 introduces a…

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