Hitachi has scrapped plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales, becoming the second firm in two months to abandon a major nuclear project and triggering “a full-blown crisis” for the UK energy’s strategy. A second Hitachi plant at Oldbury in Gloucestershire will be shelved too. “The urgent need for further new nuclear capacity in the UK should not be underestimated, with all but one of the UK’s nuclear power plant due to come offline by 2030,” said Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association. That was a blow to the UK’s energy security, its decarbonisation goals, and the economy of Cumbria. RenewableUK, the green energy trade body, said it had a “pipeline of shovel-ready” onshore windfarms that could help fill the gap left by failed nuclear plans.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2019 08:02 UTC