<p>The Government has a responsibility to manage support schemes efficiently within the Levy Control Framework (LFC) to ensure that costs to consumers remain affordable.</p><p>Unless we close the renewables obligation (RO) to new onshore wind projects, we could end up with more deployment of this technology than we can afford. This would lead either to higher energy bills or to other renewable technologies losing out on support. It is not possible to put a precise figure on this but those onshore wind projects unlikely now to go ahead could have cost hundreds of millions of pounds in subsidy over their lifetime.</p>