‘All renewables’ approach not practical says Sizewell C boss, as CBI backs nuclear. Business lobby group the CBI wants the UK to build up new nuclear power stations and scale up carbon capture technology and infrastructure to enable the UK to meet its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2015. Jim Crawford, project development director at Sizewell C in Leiston – which is still at the planning stage – said all replacement energy sources needed to be low carbon and much of that would be renewables, but ‘going all the way’ with renewables and batteries wasn’t practical. “The costs of dealing with too much or little wind and sun rise steeply with very high levels of renewables,” he said. “Renewables with reliable nuclear gives the UK a more secure and affordable supply and helps us deal better with periods with too much or too little wind.”
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