We report that the Chancellor, John Healey, says the next renewables auction will buy only projects that can lower bills. Writing in the Times on Saturday, he said there was "no sense building power that can't connect and then paying to switch it off".
The Times and the Guardian described the move as a veto on clean energy projects, including offshore wind farms, that fail that test. Our article finds that the word is the newspapers' characterisation, not Healey's. He set out no new legal power to block schemes.
The principle was already in Wednesday's Budget, which announced a cost control framework for energy.
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