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Government plans to replace tradable renewable energy certificates with a fixed price
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has opened a consultation on replacing tradable Renewables Obligation certificates with a fixed-price alternative for renewable electricity generators. The consultation asks how the new certificates would be priced and paid, and how supplier levies would be set and collected. It also looks at how the industry would move off the current scheme, with responses due by 12 January 2027.
Our readSwapping a tradable certificate for a fixed price takes some of the swings out of generators' returns, but it also hands government more say over what that price is set at.
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