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Utilities given the nuclear go-ahead as coal falters

Daily Telegraph; 10/11/2009

Utility companies welcomed the Government’s commitment to 10 new nuclear power stations but raised concerns that plans to clean up the coal industry may be unrealistic as a key consortium of investors withdrew their bid to build a new carbon capture and storage plant. money, the government having put carbon capture at the heart of Government priorities, promising no coal plants would be built without being fitted with the unproven technology.

News Item details

Websites: http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Keywords: Nuclear

Countries: UK -

Organisation: RWE Npower|Scottish Power|Centrica|EDF

Subjects: Policy and Governance, Transformation [Energy processing] (Conversion), Electricity generation, Electricity from nuclear fuel, Combined heat and power generation, Heat distribution, Storage, Power stations