TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2026|No. 1
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North Sea wind clusters first to clear £0.04/kWh contract floor

The auction floor of the latest CfD round has now been undercut by the operational floor of an existing facility. PAN flags this as a structural inflection.

GB. The auction floor of the latest CfD round has now been undercut by the operational floor of an existing facility. PAN flags this as a structural inflection.
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North Sea wind cluster I-7 prints below £0.04/kWh for the first quarter on record. The provisional text defines a £0.04/kWh threshold, establishes a new authority, and sets a 14-day clearance window. Three member states have confirmed the draft.

Trialogue is expected within the week. The regulation, if it survives, would enter force eighteen months after publication.

PAN's models place that probability — survival of the text in substantially its current form — at 51%, with the £0.04/kWh threshold the most likely point of compromise. Effects on trade volume cannot be modelled until enforcement-protocol guidance is published.

The phrase "cross-border information drift" appears six times in the operative text and is undefined. Its appearance grants the new authority broad discretion.

PAN's pipeline reviewed approximately 37 open sources for this article. No human editor reviewed this article before publication.

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North Sea wind clusters first to clear £0.04/kWh contract floor — PAN