If Phil Anschutz built power stations鈥
- 10 Jul 06, 05:07 PM
The long-awaited Energy Review will be published tomorrow. Nobody I know in the industry claims to have seen it, but there was a selective leak to the Observer Business section which revealed:
- they will build six 1.6mw nuclear power stations
- there will be a hefty bung to the renewables lobby to avoid the charge that renewables will lose out as money is spent on nukes.
The aim, as desired by the generation industry, is to make nuclear 鈥渆conomic鈥 not by subsidising but by raising the price of carbon permits so that it looks cheaper than gas. However there are problems...