The government is aiming to produce 60GW of energy through offshore wind farms by 2030.
The new offshore wind farm projects announced on Tuesday provide capacity of 4.9GW but Pranav Menon, a research associate at Aurora Energy Research, said the government has still some way to go to meet its goal.
“It still falls short of the pace required to meet its ambitious targets,” he said.
He said next year’s auction is “the last chance to procure capacity for delivery before 2030 – an additional 31GW of offshore wind capacity is needed to meet the target of 60GW”.
Meanwhile, Greenpeace warned that “the government clearly needs to take a hard look at how this system is working”.
Ami McCarthy, Greenpeace UK’s political campaigner, said: “5GW of offshore wind is of course welcome, but it is only about half of what is required each year to meet the government’s 2030 target.
“The last renewables contract auction was a catastrophic failure, and in fact the biggest disaster for clean energy in almost a decade – because of this, the new government has an uphill battle.”
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