Red tape ‘may impede’ floating wind rollout

"Onerous" new government regulations, which make all floating wind power projects spell out their supply chain plans regardless of their size, threaten to “impede” the fledgling sector's development, Labour’s shadow energy minister has warned. During a House of Commons debate on revisions to Contracts for Difference regulations, Alan Whitehead questioned why the government intends to remove the 300MW minimum size threshold that applies to other types of projects.

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