Work in progress: Licensing electricity transmission from offshore wind farms

Study outline

The Government expects that, by 2020, around 30 per cent of our electricity will come from renewable sources, including offshore wind. For this electricity to reach homes and businesses, offshore transmission links are needed, with the first three rounds of offshore windfarms involving spending of up to £15 billion on transmission.

The Office for Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) has established a new regulatory regime for offshore transmission networks which involves running competitions to grant licenses to own and maintain the new offshore transmission assets. This study will look at whether the regulatory regime is likely to deliver value for money for the electricity consumer.

This study falls under the NAO corporate theme of "cost effective delivery".

Publication schedule

We aim to publish this report in spring 2012.

Members of the NAO team

Director: David Finlay

Audit Manager: David Howes

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