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CfD (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025
Source: si-2025-25-cfd-miscellaneous-amendments.md Last updated: 2026-04-05
What this instrument does
SI 2025/25 makes two changes to the CfD legislative framework: it creates a repowering pathway for existing CfD generators and removes a qualification barrier for floating offshore wind.
Repowering pathway (Reg.2)
Generators who decommission part of an eligible generating station in order to replace that part now qualify as eligible generators for a new CfD. Before this amendment, partial decommissioning could disqualify a station.
This matters for the 2030s onshore wind fleet, where first-generation turbines (installed 2010-2015) will approach end of design life. Repowering with modern turbines on existing grid connections is the most efficient way to maintain capacity.
A new Reg.14ZA in the Allocation Regulations 2014 ensures that decommissioning-related applications can proceed despite certain exclusion criteria (Reg.3(b)).
Floating offshore wind (Reg.3(c))
Removes a qualification requirement that could have excluded some floating offshore wind projects from CfD allocation. Relevant to AR7 and subsequent allocation rounds.
Cross-references
- Legal basis: Energy Act 2013, ss.6, 10
- Parent instruments: CfD (Definition of Eligible Generator) Regulations 2014; CfD (Allocation) Regulations 2014
- Series: CfD Miscellaneous Amendments (2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2025)
- Related: CfD auctions, CfD Allocation Framework
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