Clean Energy Auction 2025
In May 2025 Riviera Maritime published an article about the anticipated launch of a UK energy auction in the coming August (Foxwell, 2025). While this brief account mentions many of the key features of the auction, it assumes a certain familiarity with the process and its background on the part of its readers, who are likely to be members of the maritime, offshore and energy business communities. Since the subject is of wider interest, some of the issues affecting the auction will be discussed below to provide a more complete picture of the auction and its context. Policy and the energy auctions A recent policy development affecting the auction is the UK’s Clean Power 2030 Action Plan. This set out targets for clean energy which include producing at least 95% of Great Britain’s generation from clean sources. This would reduce “the carbon intensity of our generation from 171gCO2e/kWh in 2023 to well below 50gCO2e/kWh in 2030.” Achieving the target would require “rapid deployment of ...