When governments award guaranteed strike prices for offshore wind (here ~£91/MWh), those prices reveal market expectations about construction, transmission and merchant risk and set practical bounds on how much private capital will commit. Large auction outcomes thus function as real‑time diagnostics of investor confidence, fiscal exposure, and the plausibility of net‑zero timelines.
— Strike‑price auctions translate abstract climate targets into concrete fiscal commitments and grid integration tests that determine whether ambitious decarbonization is politically and economically feasible.
BeauHD
2026.01.15
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This article reports Britain’s largest auction (8.4 GW), an average strike of ~£91/MWh, and nearly £22bn of expected private investment—exactly the elements (capacity, strike price, investment) that turn auctions into measurable policy signals.
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