Generators seeking a Feed in Tariff subsidy for some wind installations will have to queue until the final quarter of 2019, according to new figures released by Ofgem.
The latest information from the regulator showed that there are currently 48 generators applying for a Feed in Tariff for a wind installation between 100-1500kW. Six of those generators expect to wait until the first quarter of 2019, beginning on 1 January 2019. Four generators are expected to have to queue until the TP2 2019 tariff period, which will begin in April 2019. Currently, the tariffs rates have only been calculated until the end of March 2019, so the exact tariff these generators may receive is unclear. Ofgem said there’s “no tariff currently assigned to this period”.
There are currently 345 standalone PV generators in the queue, with over 200 expecting to wait until the first quarter of 2018 for their Feed in Tariff. There are 16 generators queuing for an anaerobic digestion feed in tariff, with four expected to queue until next year.
The quarterly spending caps were introduced by the former Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) last year as way to control spending on FITs. Detailed caps are set out for each technology and size each quarter. Installations that do not get FIT deployment in the quarter they apply will be queued for entry into the next available deployment cap. Under the revised scheme, the feed in tariff rate falls by 10 per cent automatically if a technology deployment quarterly cap is reached, on top of the planned degression.
The published figures are an indication of each installation’s place in the queue and may change after confirmation at the beginning of the relevant tariff period.
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