Tony Ward, head of utilities at EY, the consultancy, said Hinkley Point would “bring long-term employment for a highly-skilled workforce, stimulus for the UK’s industrial supply chain and ...

Of all the thorny questions facing Theresa May in her review of the Hinkley Point nuclear power project ... But Tony Ward, a utilities expert at EY, the consultancy, queried where the investment ...

The new plant is planned to be built next to two existing facilities The UK government has given the go-ahead for the French and Chinese financed nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Britain’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant risks being delayed yet again because of a row about fish, the project’s owner has said. EDF Energy said it was struggling to agree protection ...

Hinkley Point C will cost as much as £35bn to complete and will come online up to four years later than planned, its French developer has said. EDF on Tuesday said the cost of building Britain ...

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The Hinkley Point C nuclear plant in Somerset could cost up to a whopping £35 billion, warns the French firm building it. The start of electricity production, originally planned for June 2027 ...

Construction of nuclear power station Hinkley Point C is due to reach its peak in the next 18 months, with about 15,000 ...

EDF Energy announced the Hinkley Point B 1 reactor has been permanently shut down bringing an end to electricity generation at the Hinkley Point B plant in Somerset, England, after 46 years of ...

Swapping Hinkley Point power station for solar power would halve the cost to taxpayers, say experts. David Powell at the New Economics Foundation says Hinkley’s extra running expenses and the ...

The turbine generator stator for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England, has been delivered from the manufacturing plant in Belfort, France. The stator arrives ...

The UK government has given the go-ahead for the French and Chinese financed nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Approval for the project comes with some new conditions attached ...