NuGeneration and Horizon Nuclear Power expect the strike price they agree with the UK government for their respective new build projects will be lower than the one agreed for EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C plant. Tom Samson, NuGen CEO, and David Stearns, Horizon’s business development director, spoke in a meeting with British parliamentarians on 1 November. Their evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s inquiry The Economics of UK Energy Policy, followed that of EDF Energy executives, who said the £92.50/MWh strike price they had agreed with government in 2013 was a good deal for electricity consumers.
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