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The UK’s offshore wind auction broke records, but its clean power target remains unrealistic

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par Thomas York, Postgraduate Researcher in Human Geography, University of Leicester

The UK government has just announced the results of its biggest-ever auction for new offshore wind projects. By doubling the budget at the eleventh hour, it managed to award contracts for a massive 8.4 gigawatts of new capacity. Energy secretary Ed Miliband described it as “a monumental step towards clean power by 2030”.

But despite the headline success, this outcome actually makes the government’s own clean…

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