UK cuts off subsidies for onshore wind early, as EU warns on 2020 targets

摘要

The UK is to cut subsidies for new onshore wind farms a year earlier than expected, as the new Conservative government ramps up its offensive on a renewable technology it perceives as expensive, unreliable and unpopular. The Renewables Obligation (RO), introduced by the previous Labour government in 2009, was due to be scrapped in 2017 to make way for the government’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme.