The provisional results of the UK’s T-1 Capacity Market Auction, announced today (2 February), have been heavily criticised after 85% of awarded capacity went to fossil-fuel projects.
Of the 5.78GW of back-up capacity provisionally awarded, 75.55% was for natural-gas plants (4.37GW), 7.57% for coal (438MW), 1.65% for diesel (95MW) and 0.17% (10MW) for coal-mine methane.
“This is another example of government subsiding fossil fuels whilst blocking the cheapest renewables to market,” said James Court, head of policy and external affairs at the UK’s Renewable Energy Association (REA).
