Given the long list of technical and financial problems afflicting the Hinkley C power plant, writes David Thorpe, the Labour Party's continuing support for the over-priced, highly subsidised project is increasingly paradoxical. Labour must take a fresh look at HPC and the renewable alternatives that can do better at far lower cost.
… - if ever. Bloomberg quoted sources close to EDF as observing that the finance officer was … British governments are putting pressure on EDF to proceed anyway. EDF is 85% owned by the French state. The …
21st century nuclear power needs a 21st century subsidy... no blank cheques this time - just an apparently green tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila!
… chief exec of the UK arm of energy giant EDF, which plans to build Britain’s first new …