Energy minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has written to National Grid Electricity System Operator to accept its recommendation to raise the target volume for the upcoming year-ahead (T-1) Capacity Market auction to 2.4GW. The new figure represents a more than six-fold increase on the previous target of 400MW and primarily reflects a significant reduction in the amount of the generation that is expected to be available due to outages, delays or cancellations to new plants and the decommissioning of existing capacity.
Target volume for T-1 capacity auction raised to 2.4GW
