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In focus with Sir Bernard Ingham
Up to our ears in debt but value for money still has no appeal
Well, now we know how much Chancellor George Osborne is committed to value for money in energy policy. Not much. True, in his autumn statement he halved subsidies for solar panels but only because their cost has come down substantially. He also brought in £250m energy cost relief for intensive energy users who are supposed to be a prime target for reducing carbon emissions, thereby complicating energy policy still further while usefully helping to retain heavy industry in the UK.
US nuclear power plants continued their decade-long trend of reliable electricity generation in 2008, eclipsing all other electricity sources with an industry-average capacity factor of more than 90 percent, according to preliminary data on the year’s operations.
All four non-socialist parties in Sweden’s coalition government today confirmed plans to overturn a national ban and allow new nuclear reactor units to be built in the country.*
Sweden is set to overturn a ban on building new nuclear units and enact a new nuclear power law, according to an agreement on future energy policy confirmed today by the country’s coalition government.
Finnish utility Fortum today submitted is application for a decision-in-principle on the possible construction of a third reactor unit at the country’s Loviisa nuclear power plant.
The European Parliament has adopted by a large majority a “wide-ranging blueprint” for the EU’s future energy strategy that calls for “a specific road map for investments in nuclear energy”.
A new study of Dutch energy policy by the International Energy Agency (IEA) urges the government to take a decision on new nuclear build as soon as possible or risk creating uncertainty.
Progress Energy's four nuclear plants in the US states of North and South Carolina and Florida set a record for their combined electricity generation in 2008, the company said on 27 January.
The announcement by French president Nicolas Sarkozy confirming the construction of a second European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR) run by Electricite de France (EDF) is “excellent news for the whole of the nuclear industry”, the company has said.
