1. Alternative sources of Energy
Nuclear and renewables

4. Hinkley Point C is scheduled for 2025
Hinkley Point C is scheduled for It will be made up of two nuclear reactors and will be built next to Hinkley Point A and B.

5. I Nuclear power 15 reactors, 21% of electricity generation.
50% retired by 2025
2025 : new generation of nuclear plants
1. Various sectors
Electricity generation : British Energy (EDF 2008)
Reprocessing BNG (British Nuclear Group)
Decommissioning BNG, UKAE (UK Atomic Authority)
Waste disposal : BNG

6. 2. Britain pioneering nuclear in the 1950s.
1956 : the world’s first commercial nuclear reactor
1970 : First nuclear electricity producer
3. Nuclear power’s competitive environment
the climate change levy 80 million pounds
Reprocessing costs.(£300 m)
Decommissioning costs.

7. 4. A revival of the nuclear industry since 2006.
Higher gas prices
Environmental goals
2006 : Energy Review
5 new nuclear power stations by 2025
EDF Energy : Hinkley Point, Sizewell
Horizon Nuclear Power, Hitachi : Wylfa, Oldbury.
NuGeneration : Sellafield

8. 5. A private sector since the 1990s
1947 : nationalisation of electricity
1996 : privatisation of nuclear-generated electricity British Energy.
 2005 : privatisation of reprocessing and decommissioning. (BNFL)
5. The funding of the new plants
Controversy over Hinkley Point (1.5bn pounds beyond budget 2016)
No government subsidies but Contract for Difference.

9. II Renewables 29% electricity generation : but only 8
II Renewables 29% electricity generation : but only 8.3% for energy use in 2016 (transport and heating) (2020 EU target is 15%)
1. Huge potential
a new industrial revolution
2010 : missed the official EU target

10. Offshore wind farms planned from 2010

11. 2. Wind power
40% European wind resources
15% of electricity generation
2003 : wind power revolution. New round of offshore wind licensing.
 January 2010 : Round three . Large offshore project.
2016 : second phase. Hornsea Project two.
2017: no subsidies for new onshore farms.
Drawbacks :
local planning permission
Cost of connection to national grid
subsidies

12. 2. Plant biomass (9% of electricity generation)
The largest importer in wood pellets in the world
Shift from coal to biomass : Drax.
Is it really green? Cuts in subsidies in 2018.
3. Solar power
29% growth over the year 2016, despite cuts in government subsidies.

13. August 2004 : a testing centre at Stromness in Orkney.
3. Wave and tidal power
August 2004 : a testing centre at Stromness in Orkney. 
2010 : Ten sites
2015 : 2 wave farms in Cornwall and Scotland
2018: plan for Swansea Tidal lagoon rejected.
largest power firms, E.ON, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Scottish Power Renewables.

14. Pelamis Wave Energy Device Testing