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#2026/678UK Contracts for Difference Allocation Amendment Regulations 2026

🇬🇧United Kingdom··Other·Low Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This law adjusts the rules for the UK’s Contracts for Difference allocation process, which supports low-carbon electricity projects. It mainly changes how applicants can challenge non-qualification decisions and how evidence can be submitted during a review. It also allows the delivery body to correct certain errors in qualification notices, including issuing an amended non-qualification decision or changing a qualifying notice into a non-qualification decision where the allocation framework allows it. Renewable energy developers and other CfD applicants should check the applicable allocation framework closely, because it may set extra rules on evidence, correction notices, and review timelines.

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Key Changes

  • Allows review notices to include specified documentary evidence or information where the contract allocation framework permits it
  • Lets the delivery body correct certain errors in qualification and non-qualification notices
  • Allows related allocation and review rules to be modified in the allocation framework to handle corrected determinations

Obligations

What this law requires

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The delivery body must only issue an amended non-qualification determination or change a qualifying application notice to a non-qualification determination where the applicable contract allocation framework provides for that error-correction process.

Contracts for Difference delivery body
operational
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CfD applicants seeking review of a non-qualification determination should ensure any documentary evidence or information included in a review notice matches the descriptions specified in the applicable contract allocation framework.

Contracts for Difference applicantsrenewable electricity project developers
operational
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Where an applicant submits a review notice challenging a non-qualification determination, any documentary evidence or information included must be of a description permitted by the applicable contract allocation framework.

Contracts for Difference applicantslow-carbon electricity project developers
operational
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The delivery body may issue an amended non-qualification determination only where the applicable contract allocation framework provides for such correction of determination notices.

Contracts for Difference delivery body
operational
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The delivery body may change a notice stating that an application is a qualifying application into a non-qualification determination only where the applicable contract allocation framework provides for that correction power.

Contracts for Difference delivery body
operational

Affected Parties

Renewable and low-carbon electricity project developers applying for Contracts for DifferenceThe Contracts for Difference delivery body+1 more…

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