Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce published its final report. Although the UK is one of 33 countries pledging to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050, the Taskforce warns that the current system risks slowing delivery at a time when global competitors are accelerating. Brevia Energy explores the key takeaways from the Report.
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Baroness Margaret Curran has been appointed Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero in the House of Lords, following the retirement of Lord Hunt. She inherits a high-stakes brief at a crucial moment, particularly for the UK’s nuclear sector. Her portfolio includes responsibility for nuclear, individual planning decisions and DESNZ businesses in the House of Lords. With the Government expected to announce its Final Investment Decision for Sizewell C in a few weeks, the new Minister takes up her post at a critical time for the nuclear sector.
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Since entering government, the Labour Party has demonstrated a laser focus on delivering its mission of 100 per cent clean power by 2030, reforming planning laws for onshore wind, raising the CfD AR6 budget, and introducing legislation to establish Great British Energy (GBE). With the UK’s future nuclear reactors, including Hinkley Point C, only due to come online in the 2030s, nuclear energy does not fit neatly into Labour’s clean power mission. This raises an important question about Labour’s agenda: will the Party pursue nuclear energy with the same level of ambition that it is demonstrating for other technologies? Below, the Brevia Nuclear team explores some of the key areas where Labour could provide greater certainty to the nuclear sector.
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The UK Government’s target of deploying 24GW of nuclear generation capacity by 2050 confirms the key role it sees nuclear playing in the UK’s net zero transition. However, it is nearly 30 years since the most recent plant, Sizewell B, came online and Hinkley Point C will not be generating electricity until at least 2029. A significant step change is required.
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It has been announced that Jacobs, a Dallas headquartered energy consulting, engineering and construction services firm, has been awarded several contracts with an estimated combined value of $25 million. The contracts were awarded by Fusion for Energy (F4E), the ITER Organization and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in order to support leading-edge research in fusion energy.
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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, EDF Energy has introduced a series of measures to ensure its employees are protected against the virus. Not only has it significantly reduced activity on its Hinkley Point C site from 4,000 to 2,000 workers, but it has also instituted extra cleaning, working from home, banning visitors, temperature checks, and bringing in more buses to allow workers to stay apart.
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On 14 January 2020, the European Union (UN) unveiled plans for €1 trillion in sustainable investments over the coming decade. The investment is designed to make the EU climate-neutral by 2050, however, the transition fund money under the plan will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants.
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Ofgem plans to grant National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) £637 million to build a transmission link connecting Hinkley Point C to the grid. This is £80 million short of the NGET’s initial request of £717 million.
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EDF Energy has announced that the anticipated cost of Hinkley Point C has increased by £2.9 billion. This is almost a 15 per cent increase relative to the previous estimate. Project completion is now estimated to be between £21.5 billion and £22.5 billion.
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The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is working with EDF Energy and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to plan for the decommissioning of EDF Energy’s nuclear stations.
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