The taxpayer will take a several billion-pound stake in EDF’s Sizewell C nuclear project, in a deal that will force China General Nuclear…
Continue ReadingEDF will wait until the end of 2022 or even 2023 to decide whether to proceed with the Sizewell C nuclear plant, amid…
Continue ReadingLast year at this time the UK was partway through a 55-day stretch without its coal plants coming online once. Today, power stations…
Continue ReadingMinisters are exploring ways to block China’s state-owned energy company from involvement in the UK’s next generation of nuclear power plants, including the…
Continue ReadingBritish billpayers should brace for steeper energy costs this autumn after wholesale power prices reached record highs in the second quarter of the…
Continue ReadingThe carbon intensity of Great Britain’s electricity was 5% higher in the first months of 2021 than it was over the same period…
Continue ReadingEDF’s Hunterston B Nuclear Plant Cleared for Final Six Months of Operation
Written by Lauren Smith in Nuclear Energy
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has granted EDF permission to return the Hunterston B nuclear power plant to service for six months…
Continue ReadingFrench state energy firm EDF has confirmed it will begin decommissioning the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station within the next two years,…
Continue ReadingThe government is reportedly on the cusp of approving EDF’s £20 billion Sizewell C nuclear project in Suffolk.
Continue ReadingNuclear Clean-Up Bill Has Increased by £3bn, Spending Watchdog Says
Written by Lauren Smith in Electricity
Estimates of the cost of cleaning up a dozen of the UK’s earliest nuclear sites have increased by £2.7 billion since 2017 and…
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