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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Nuclear strike price to be higher than wind? - While wind development is 'capped'.

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The Government seems poised to announce a policy that will see nuclear power paid more than onshore wind. In the process onshore wind develo...

Hitachi bid - more fantasy nuclear power?

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The latest supposed breakthrough for the UK nuclear new build programme came with the announcement  that the Japanese nuclear constructors H...
Sunday, 7 October 2012

Secrecy and lies likely as Government considers 'blank cheque' for nuclear

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The Government, via Energy Minister John Hayes, is considering a major u-turn in nuclear power policy as it considers giving a blank chequ...
Monday, 17 September 2012

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British nuclear supporters issue surrender notice Supporters of British nuclear power have effectively surrendered in their efforts to se...
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Monday, 13 August 2012

EDF implies cost of Hinkley C could be higher than £100 per MWh

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It was good news for offshore wind as EDF, in an article in the Daily Telegraph, 'suggested that....costs for Hinkley Point..... could b...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012

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Will Chinese companies invest in British nuclear power? The papers are now almost swimming with stories that leading Chinese nuclear co...
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Monday, 16 July 2012

It's official - nuclear power IS more expensive than offshore wind

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See the story in the Times that EDF wants to be paid £165 per MWh (198  euros per MWh) for its proposed 3.2 GWe reactor and Hinkley C in ...
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Dr David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations in the University of Aberdeen. You can see his profile at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/david.toke?count=10 He has been campaigning on energy issues for about 35 years, and in 1990 his book ‘Green Energy’ was an influential argument in the UK for a non-nuclear approach to dealing with global warming. He was a key player in the campaign to establish feed-in tariffs for small renewable projects in the UK, achieved in 2008. He has consistently argued that the UK's proposed nuclear power programme is not only uneconomic compared to renewable energy, but that it is undeliverable short of one or more governments signing what amounts to a 'blank cheque' to pay for the nuclear power plant. His latest book, published by Routledge is called 'Low Carbon Politics'. He has published many papers in leading political science journals on environmental, especially energy (and renewable energy) issues and he is also a frequent and well cited contributor to the journal 'Energy Policy' published by Elsevier. His twitter address is @DaveToke
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