{"id":7040,"date":"2016-07-29T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:39:28","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-hinkley-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7040","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – Hinkley C"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The whole Hinkley C saga continues to roll on and on and on.\u00a0 This morning its taken another extraordinary twist<\/a>.\u00a0 Yesterday the French decided to go ahead with the scheme after years of prevarication (so many I’ve lost count).\u00a0 Overnight the UK government has made what could be an extraordinary volte face.\u00a0 They want to consider the whole thing and delay actually signing the contract.<\/p>\n

At this point I am beginning to feel sorry for EDF, something I had thought was not possible.\u00a0 The previous government had been on and on at EDF over Hinkley C.\u00a0 EDF agree to go ahead and then our government seems to have cold feet.\u00a0 You could not make it up.<\/p>\n

This is without a shadow of a doubt a terrible deal.\u00a0 There are clear indications that both sides are trying to find a way out without losing face.\u00a0 The power is two expensive and some other technology will be needed to fill the gap.\u00a0 One extraordinary fact is that the reactor was supposed to open next year, which makes it 9 years late before construction has even started.\u00a0 The French unions oppose it, several members of the EDF board have resigned and the French government has had to recapitalise EDF.<\/p>\n

Whilst it seems more likely that this is going to go ahead or at least start, we cannot be sure it will finish.\u00a0 There is talk of abandoning construction of the same reactor at Flaminville.\u00a0 I assume my government is trying to get a better deal particularly on the power price.\u00a0 How successful this will be we can only guess.<\/p>\n

The problem for the nuclear lobby is that almost all competing technologies are now cheaper (only wave and tidal are definitely more expensive) at the suggested strike price.\u00a0 By the time these Hinkley C reactors open all these technologies and energy storage will be cheaper (given this thing may have a 60-100 year life).\u00a0 This also assume construction goes smoothly.\u00a0 Nuclear will not be able to compete with renewables and how will they be able to sell the power?<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The whole Hinkley C saga continues to roll on and on and on.\u00a0 This morning its taken another extraordinary twist.\u00a0 Yesterday the French decided to go ahead with the scheme after years of prevarication (so many I’ve lost count).\u00a0 Overnight … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,17,4],"tags":[49,61,63],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-renewables","tag-nuclear-power","tag-renewable-energy","tag-renewables-2"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - Hinkley C - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7040\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7040\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7040\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - 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