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Sizewell C legal challenge dampens investment launch
…comes on the same day that the government fired the starting gun on its private equity round to raise capital for the nuclear plant. Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice…
Weekend Press: Energy efficiency taskforce axed after four meetings
…north-east Scotland, Southern Water faces legal action over floods and Bill Gates raises concerns that his nuclear firm is to be snubbed in the UK modular reactor race. UK ministers…
Weekend press: More cash for wind farms near towns as net zero shift stretches grid
…legal action fears Great British Nuclear (GBN) has delayed a decision on where the first mini-nuclear reactors will be built until after the next election, following concerns that losers of…
Welsh site moves step closer to homing UK’s first SMRs
Plans to deploy small modular reactors (SMRs) in North Wales have moved a step closer to reality. Cwmni Egino, the company behind plans to develop the former nuclear power station…
Sizewell B back online following £80m upgrade
Sizewell B has begun generating again following the completion of an £80 million upgrade. The Suffolk nuclear plant has been offline since the middle of February. In that time, the…
Government boosts investment in Sizewell C to £2.5bn
The government has invested another £1.3 billion in EDF’s Sizewell C nuclear project, bringing the total to date to around £2.5 billion. The latest injection came as the campaign group…
Sizewell C to face higher construction penalties to protect consumers from delays
…the cost of financing construction, one of the biggest drivers of new nuclear project costs. This means that we anticipate charges for large-scale nuclear projects to be around £1 a…
Hinkley delay could benefit Drax
…plans to invest £1.3 billion to maintain its nuclear output at current levels until 2026. According to the Electricity System Operator, Britain’s existing nuclear fleet accounted for 14.2% of the…
2035 grid decarbonisation goal ‘out of reach’
…and 1.7GW of nuclear. In addition, Britain’s 8.4GW interconnector capacity will need to more than double and the power system will require 11.3GW of carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)…
Social tariff failure shows ‘lack of leadership’ in water
…it intends to take to increase investment in the water sector Give clear guidance to Ofwat on the balance between investment and the affordability of customer bills ahead of the…
Weekend press: Thames Water’s debt crisis deepens
…pile pressure on nuclear push at home and abroad When in 2016 France’s EDF signed up to build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant in two decades, defenders of the…
Winser backs lump sums for homes close to new power lines
…operators. He is adamant that for the energy transition to be successful it will need buy-in from the public and that this will require a clear message around the need…
Warm Home Discount scheme ‘long way short’ of social tariff
…not eligible for means tested benefits, it was both wasteful, as affluent households also received help, and costly, with total costs exceeding £50 billion. Source: Citizens Advice Although clearly in…
Crossed wires: The challenge of reconnecting transmission and distribution
…to be a “much clearer definition of the transmission and distribution interface”. He explains that while transmission networks have “got a very clear view of generation growth” and the need…
Industry backs green tariff reform
…sufficient level of consumer transparency, the majority said the current approach does not. DESNZ said: “Many respondents argued that it was unclear to consumers whether their choice of a green…
French nuclear woes to keep power prices high beyond 2030
Average wholesale power prices are likely to remain above £100/MWh until 2030 and beyond as the UK exports power to Europe to fill the gap left by French nuclear outages….
EDF won’t make ‘massive fortune’ from Hinkley, says director
EDF won’t make a “massive fortune” out of its Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant due to returns being eroded by delays to the project and escalating costs, a director…
Nuclear demolition workers ‘overwhelmingly’ back strike action
Hundreds of workers at Scotland’s largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project have “overwhelmingly” backed strike action over a pay dispute, Unite has confirmed. The union said its 460-strong membership employed…
EDF hit with second improvement notice for nuclear plant incidents
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an improvement notice to EDF for the second time in five days. The latest improvement notice follows an incident at Heysham 1…
Workers threaten strike action at nuclear demolition site
…is currently trading as Nuclear Restoration Services, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). The site is scheduled to be fully decommissioned and cleaned-up in 2033….