CfD Stakeholder Bulletin — 17 January 2024
Summary
DESNZ published the Exemptions Request Notice for CfD Allocation Round 6, setting out procedures for excluded generators to apply for exemption from temporary site exclusion. Generators must follow specific procedures to become eligible for AR6, which opens in March 2024. The Low Carbon Contracts Company maintains the Register of Temporary Site Exclusion.
Why it matters
Administrative process that allows previously excluded sites back into the CfD queue rather than pricing exclusion or creating market mechanisms for site eligibility. The exemption process maintains central planning of renewable deployment rather than letting price signals determine optimal sites.
Key facts
- •AR6 opens March 2024
- •Exemption requests must meet specific information requirements
- •Closing date for exemption requests specified in notice
- •Register of Temporary Site Exclusion maintained by LCCC
Timeline
Areas affected
Related programmes
Memo
Contracts for Difference: Stakeholder Bulletin 17 January 2024 AR6 Exemptions Request Notice The government has published the Exemptions Request Notice for Allocation Round 6 (AR6). This notice sets out the procedure that excluded generators must follow if they wish to apply to be exempted from their temporary site exclusion in order to be eligible to participate in AR6, which is due to open in March 2024. • Exemptions Request Notice Details of excluded sites are placed on the Register of Temporary Site Exclusion published and updated from time to time by the Low Carbon Contracts Company, the CfD counterparty. The Exemptions Request Notice includes details of: • The information to be included in an exemption request • The deadline by which a request for an exemption certificate must be received by the Secretary of State (i.e. the “closing date”) • Where such requests should be sent Visit the CfD microsite for more information about AR6 and the CfD scheme. General Data Protection Regulation This stakeholder bulletin is being circulated to people who have opted in to the Contract for Difference stakeholder contact list. We issue these stakeholder bulletins as a convenience to interested parties, however it is not in any way essential to be on this list to participate in major consultations or allocation rounds. Purpose & scope of this list: This list is managed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (and any successor departments) and will be used to inform interested parties of policy developments relevant to the Contract for Difference scheme for renewable energy projects (and any direct successor schemes). It is not used for any other purposes. To be removed from the circulation list: Please send a blank e-mail with the subject ‘opt out’ (if the receiving e-mail you use is different to the one you send the e-mail from, include that e-mail address in the subject of the e-mail) to ContractsForDifference@energysecurity.gov.uk. If you have received this indirectly and want to be added to this list: Send a blank e-mail with the subject line ‘opt in’ to ContractsforDifference@energysecurity.gov.uk. You can withdraw your consent to opt in at any time. We will normally keep your address on this list until you: a) withdraw your consent to opt in, b) the scheme closes without any successor, c) we receive reports your email address is no longer operational, or d) you do not respond to a periodic request from us to reconfirm your desire to opt in.