Clifford Chance

Managing the Transition from Renewables Obligation to CfD

14 March 2014

One key challenge for UK Electricity Market Reform is to manage the transition from the current Renewables Obligation (RO) scheme to the new Contract for Difference Feed-in Tariff scheme (CfD). The Government intends that the RO and CfD schemes will run in parallel from the introduction of the CfD in 2014 through to 31 March 2017 when the RO will close to new capacity. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has now published a response to two consultations dealing with this transition.  This briefing looks at the confirmed proposals.

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