Flagship Welsh floating wind project faces delays in wake of failed auction

James Murray
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One of the UK's existing floating offshore wind projects / Credit: Principle Power
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One of the UK's existing floating offshore wind projects / Credit: Principle Power

Fears grow UK offshore wind farm development could stall unless government moves swiftly to fix faltering auction regime

The fallout from Friday's clean power auction announcement continued over the weekend, as reports confirmed one of the UK's flagship floating offshore wind projects now expects to be delayed by at least...

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