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<p>The Department’s 2020 Cost of Electricity Generation Report[1] presents forecasts
from 2025 to 2040. In response to point (c), the capital costs assumed in the report
are £1.95million per megawatt capacity, in 2018 prices, for a UK offshore wind farm
commissioning in 2025. The above can also be taken as the Department’s assumption
for (b), wind farms that are due to be commissioned in the next five years.</p><p>
</p><p>The Department does not hold historic project data on (a), capital costs for
UK offshore wind farms commissioned in the past five years.</p><p> </p><p><em>[1]
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-2020"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-2020</a></em></p>
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