Fergus Ewing spoke after today’s decision to put Scotland's 664MW Beatrice on a list of eight renewable energy projects eligible for a CFD under the UK’s Final Investment Decision Enabling (FIDE) process.

Beatrice at one stage seemed destined to miss out, after being left off a shortlist of 10 deemed “provisionally affordable” along with Mainstream Renewable Power’s Neart na Gaoithe, and Repsol and EDPR’s 1.05GW