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By Nicholas Earl Renewable projects will be blocked from cashing in on the energy crisis, after the Government confirmed a raft of measures to ease record household bills. Downing Street has announced a temporary ‘cost-plus revenue limit’, which will apply to renewable and nuclear electricity generators from next year. The mechanism is intended to stop low carbon generators benefitting from abnormally high wholesale costs driven by spikes in gas prices, forcing up costs for consumers even though renewable energy is generally cheaper to produce. The specifics of the measure are subject to the f…