Nuclear Power is NOT the answer to Climate Change !
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Centrica in talks with French over £10bn nuclear bid
Centrica, the parent company of British Gas and Scottish Gas, has begun secret talks with EDF, the giant French utility, aimed at securing a £10bn “British-led solution” to the future of the country's nuclear power generator, British Energy.
EDF says Britain must ditch renewables to help promote nuclear
Industry recognises that nuclear power and renewables in Britain are mutually exclusive because they both need government support as well as the same national grid infrastructure to distribute electricity. Last week Carlo de Riva, chief executive of French state-owned nuclear company EDF, said British backing for renewables, would undermine nuclear power.
“If you provide incentives for renewables ... that will displace the incentives built into the carbon market. In effect, carbon gets cheaper. And if carbon gets cheaper, you depress the returns for all the other low-carbon technologies. [like nuclear power].”
E.ON demands new nuclear
The British government must remain resolute
in its backing for a new fleet of nuclear power stations despite the likelihood
of a fresh legal challenge, the head of power giant E.ON UK
said on Wednesday.
Good Shares
Good Energy, the country's only supplier
of 100 per cent renewable electricity, has raised more than £1 million
in a share offer on the PLUS market, previously called Ofex. The company
intends to use the money to treble output at its wind farm in Delabole, Cornwall.
The firm is the only supplier to have
bought 100 per cent of its power from renewable sources between April 1,
2006 and March 31, 2007. Its energy comes from a mix of wind turbines, hydropower
and solar panels.
Western Daily Press, 24th Jan 2008
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