“We’ve been contacted by a lot of potential suppliers this morning – they’re asking us what [SSE’s announcement] means for the project, will the project carry on,” RWE Innogy UK spokesman Stephen Thomas tells Recharge.

“The honest answer is we need to take stock, we need to review the project.”

As a consented but still development-stage project, few firm contracts have been announced in relation to Galloper, which is located off the coast of eastern England, and was downsized late last year from 504MW.

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