composer install fails

[nigelwhite]

composer install returns

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires nuvoleweb/drupal-component-scaffold * -> satisfiable by nuvoleweb/drupal-component-scaffold[dev-master, 0.1.0, 9999999-dev].
    - nuvoleweb/drupal-component-scaffold[dev-master, 0.1.0] require composer-plugin-api ^1.0.0 -> found composer-plugin-api[2.3.0] but it does not match the constraint.

composer [install] failed, composer command failed: exit status 2. stderr=

Running composer version 2.3.7