Huub den Rooijen, the Crown Estate’s head of offshore wind, predicted that the conclusion of the UK’s protracted Electricity Market Reform (EMR) process will give investors the certainty they need to back the best projects in a “maturing” sector.
But he forecast that it also means “we will begin to see a healthy attrition as the UK pipeline moves from a potential 40GW towards a figure more in line with the government's current thinking for offshore wind” – which den Rooijen noted is between 8GW and 16GW.
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