Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Task Force
DECC published its Renewables Roadmap in June and made a commitment to establish a new industry task force to set out a path and action plan for reducing the levelised costs of offshore wind to £100 per MW/h by 2020. The task force membership was announced by Charles Hendry on 12 October 2011. It is chaired by Andrew Jamieson, Chair of RenewableUK, and involves industry, government and the Crown Estate.
The key role of the task force will be to recommend areas to be targeted by industry and government for potential cost reduction, to enable the UK to unlock the full potential of the UK’s offshore wind resources. It will report by Spring 2012 to Minister of State Charles Hendry and ministers of the devolved administrations, and will help inform future iterations of the roadmap.