UK CIS Tender 7 awards 71% of capacity to wind

Wind dominated the UK's latest Contracts for Investment Support round: Tender 7 awarded 71% of its capacity to wind, per Modo Energy's CIS Generation Update. The scheme's subsequent round, Tender 9, introduces a sharper focus on deliverability, a signal that the CIS framework is moving to filter out projects that win contracts but stall in development.

On the continent, PNE secured a place in France's latest competitive onshore wind award round with a 22 MW project, per Renews.biz. France has been running successive tender rounds to hit its 2030 targets, and a 22 MW award is consistent with the smaller project sizes typical of French onshore permitting constraints.

Ibedrola reported a generation increase attributable to wind output, with distributed electricity volumes also rising, according to Renews.biz. No specific GWh figures were published in the headline data available. Separately, installation vessel operator Cadeler closed an EIFO-backed financing facility (branded Wind Apex) to support new vessel construction, a supply-side development relevant to offshore wind build-out timelines across European markets.