More than 1480MW of onshore wind capacity has been awarded in the UK’s Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 5.
A total of 24 wind farms were awarded government support contracts at a strike price of £52.29 per megawatt-hour.
The administrative price set for onshore wind in AR5 was £53/MWh.
All of the sites awarded contracts are located in Scotland, except for one in Wales – Pennant Walters’ 34.8MW Foel Trawsnant wind farm.
SSE Renewables scooped the biggest slice of the pie in Pot One, securing 231MW for its Strathy South wind farm in northern Scotland.
The developer also locked in a 100.8MW contract for its Bhlaraidh Extension, as well as 49.99MW for its Aberarder, both also in the Highlands.
SSE was also the only winner to emerge from the Remote Islands technology stream, securing 223.6MW for its Viking wind farm in Shetland, having last year been awarded 220MW for the same site.
EDF Renewables bagged 168.75MW for its Clash Gour project in Moray and a further 40MW for its Heathland wind farm in South Lanarkshire.
RWE Renewables has been awarded 69MW to its in-construction Enoch Hill site along with 36MW for its Camster 2 scheme and 62.7MW for its Strathy Wood project.
Germany’s Energiekontor secured 242.3MW of capacity across five separate Scottish sites, including its Fell, Margree, Lairg 2, Garbet and Hare Craig wind farms.
Meanwhile, Boralex was awarded 106MW for its Limekiln development in the Highlands, while an ESB-Coriolis partnership lined up 67.2MW for their Blarghour scheme.
ESB was also successful at its Greenburn project, developed in partnership with REG, netting 63MW of capacity for the East Ayrshire site.
The results for onshore wind in AR5 are a significant step up compared to the 2022 auction, where around 888MW of capacity was secured across 10 projects.
A total of 3.7GW of renewable capacity was secured across the auction as a whole, although offshore wind was absent after no winners emerged.
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