
Charles Wood & Jennifer Pattison gear up for Tender Round 3
The UK government, under the EU Renewable Energy Directive 2009, set ambitious climate change targets of 15% of total energy consumption from renewable sources (2009 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC)) and a 34% reduction of carbon emission by 2020 (Climate Change Act 2008/UK 4th Carbon Budget). The government set out its strategy for achieving such targets in its Renewables Roadmap, including the objective to install 18GW (recently revised to 8-16 GW) of offshore wind capacity by 2020.
Although the UK has made good progress and now generates more power from offshore wind than the rest of Europe combined,