UK: In an interview with Windpower Monthly at RenewableUK 2013, the trade association's head of policy, Gordon Edge, gives a cautious thumbs-up to the contract-for-difference (CFD) scheme, which he says will provide the wind industry with greater price certainty.
The UK's wind power sector is still on hold though, he says, as it waits for the government to publish its electricity market reform delivery plans.
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