CfD net flows: payments between the LCCC and generators
What the Contracts for Difference scheme actually costs, month by month: the gap between the output-weighted strike price and the market reference price, and the cash that follows from it.
Two charts and a table. The first plots the output-weighted CfD strike price against the market reference price in £/MWh. The second turns that gap into money: the net flow between the Low Carbon Contracts Company and generators, alongside the LCCC’s own published settlement totals as a cross-check. The table splits the same flow by nation.
Where the reference price is above the strike price the flow reverses and generators pay back into the scheme — as happened through the 2022 energy price spike. Figures can be shown monthly, quarterly or annually, in nominal pounds or real terms, and projected forward on the site’s output projections.
612 CfD contracts are in the register: 88 operational, 473 not yet generating and 51 terminated. The 561 live contracts hold 49.8 GW of contracted capacity across 12 technologies and allocation rounds AR1, AR2, AR3, AR4, AR5, AR6, AR7, BC, IC. Settlement data runs to 6 August 2026.