So the oligarchs and Rosneft are both looking for some kind of guarantee mechanism, such that if one part of the deal were to get done, the other would too.

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One, labouring under the term of "contracts for difference", is a mechanism under which the government will guarantee a price that energy firms can obtain for producing and selling electricity generated either by wind farms or new nuclear power stations.

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