Report finds key policies could substantially increase UK offshore wind capacity

"The National Grid has already indicated it wants to remove barriers from balancing and ancillary markets that prevent other technologies from contribution to grid stability," says Hugo Batten

Last month, the energy market analyst company Aurora Energy Research published a report into the ''new economics of offshore wind'' which, amongst other things, concludes that the adoption of two policy mechanisms designed to achieve greater offshore wind penetration ''should increase potential offshore wind capacity on the GB system up ...

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