Today’s Daily Telegraph reports that French state-owned utility EDF is “exploring plans to help develop a new nuclear reactor in Cumbria”, adding that the firm has “met with local officials keen to revive the area’s nuclear industry after Toshiba ditched plans to build a reactor in Moorside in late 2018”. The Telegraph continues: “It is believed EDF’s interest in the area would be as part of a consortium rather than as lead developer. Rolls-Royce is also interested in developing small modular reactors there…Any involvement of EDF in a Cumbria project would mark a widening of its considerable involvement in UK nuclear. It is building Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset and wants to construct a replica in Suffolk, Sizewell C, both alongside its Chinese partner China General Nuclear. It will then help CGN build its own project, Bradwell B, in Essex. Those projects were thrown into doubt earlier this month after China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, appeared to suggest that China could pull out of the project in retaliation if the Government kicks Huawei out of Britain’s 5G networks.”
Meanwhile, the Mail on Sunday reports that “Boris Johnson is facing a backbench rebellion after blocking a tidal power scheme while sanctioning Chinese involvement in the UK’s nuclear power programme”. It adds: “A group of 25 Tory MPs, led by former Ministers Paul Maynard and Iain Duncan Smith, are lobbying business secretary Alok Sharma to override officials who are preventing a proposed £1.3bn tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay from going ahead. Mr Duncan Smith said the green energy plan was the sort of ‘shovel ready’ project which could boost the economy in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic. Work could begin within months on the lagoon, which would provide enough power for 155,000 homes.”
The i newspaper and Independent cover comments made by energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng to BBC’s North West Tonight programme in which he said that “fracking is over”. He said: “We had a moratorium on fracking last year, and frankly the debate has moved on. It’s not something that we are looking to do. We have always said that we would be evidence-backed, so if there was a time when the scientific evidence changed our mind we would be open to that. But for now, fracking is over.”
Meanwhile, the Times reports that “government-backed research” by the Advanced Propulsion Centre has concluded that the “switch to electric vehicles could deliver a £24bn boost to the [UK] economy over the next five years”. And the Daily Telegraph says that “National Grid is gearing up for a battle with President Trump’s administration over vehicle emissions rules that give a boost to petrol cars over electric ones” It adds: “The FTSE 100 company is among several large utilities challenging new rules that weaken emissions standards set by the Obama administration and remove the ability of California and other states to set their own emissions rules. National Grid runs Britain’s main gas and power grids but about half of its business is in the US, where it runs networks stretching across New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.”
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