‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: British auction secures no offshore windfarms

Lack of interest was widely expected after government failed to heed warnings about soaring costs

Part of the offshore wind farm in Aberdeen bay, Scotland.

No new offshore windfarms will go ahead in Britain after the latest government auction, in what critics have called the biggest clean energy policy failure in almost a decade.

None of the companies hoping to build big offshore wind farms in British waters took part in the government’s annual auction, which awards contracts to generate renewable electricity for 15 years at a set price.