CfD Stakeholder Bulletin — 14 November 2023

Contracts for Difference: Stakeholder Bulletin 14 November 2023 AR6 supply chain plan assessments Please see the below information regarding the imminent assessment of supply chain plans for Allocation Round 6 of the Contracts for Difference scheme. Submitting a supply chain plan If you wish to submit a supply chain plan (SCP), you must notify the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of this intention at supplychainplan@energysecurity.gov.uk by the calendar week commencing Monday 27th November. We would be most grateful if you could notify us as soon as possible. Once the Department has been made aware you intend to submit an SCP, we will create a Microsoft Teams site for you to upload your SCP and any annexes to. Please let us know as soon as possible email addresses of persons you would like us to add to your Teams site so that these persons can access the site. All SCPs and annexes must be uploaded by no later than 11.59pm on Sunday 10th December. If you submit an SCP, you will receive an email confirming receipt of the submission within three days of the closing of the SCP application window (4th – 10th December). If you do not receive an email confirmation, or you encounter any problems submitting documents, please contact supplychainplan@energysecurity.gov.uk at the earliest opportunity. The Department will begin assessing SCPs from Monday 11th December. Feedback meetings Once you let us know you intend to submit an SCP, we will also get in touch to arrange a feedback session with you to cover anything outstanding following the Department’s initial assessment in the week commencing 11th December. We are holding the feedback sessions in the weeks commencing 8th and 15th January. SCP guidance If you are submitting an SCP, we would recommend you also read carefully through the SCP guidance. This contains all the important information for drafting your SCP. Queries If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the SCP team at supplychainplan@energysecurity.gov.uk. General Data Protection Regulation This stakeholder bulletin is being circulated to people who have opted in to the Contract for Difference stakeholder contact list. We issue these stakeholder bulletins as a convenience to interested parties, however it is not in any way essential to be on this list to participate in major consultations or allocation rounds. Purpose & scope of this list: This list is managed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (and any successor departments) and will be used to inform interested parties of policy developments relevant to the Contract for Difference scheme for renewable energy projects (and any direct successor schemes). It is not used for any other purposes. To be removed from the circulation list: Please send a blank e-mail with the subject ‘opt out’ (if the receiving e-mail you use is different to the one you send the e-mail from, include that e-mail address in the subject of the e-mail) to ContractsForDifference@energysecurity.gov.uk. If you have received this indirectly and want to be added to this list: Send a blank e-mail with the subject line ‘opt in’ to ContractsForDifference@energysecurity.gov.uk. You can withdraw your consent to opt in at any time. We will normally keep your address on this list until you: a) withdraw your consent to opt in, b) the scheme closes without any successor, c) we receive reports your email address is no longer operational, or d) you do not respond to a periodic request from us to reconfirm your desire to opt in.