EDF says #HinkleyPointC, Britain’s first new #nuclear power station for 30 years, is likely to cost more than envisaged. #EDF’s Flamanville-3 reactor in France is 10yrs+ behind schedule. In the US, the $14b original cost of Vogtle 3 & 4 has blown past $30b https://www.ft.com/content/2b5e0a50-dcf7-4932-a293-6fa82cebc027

Georgia's new nuclear power is behind schedule and over budget, but it's still better off than South Carolina's nukes, which were so over budget that they were abandoned in 2017. France's nuke is a decade behind schedule. Finland's opened this year - 14 years late. The UK's #HinkleyPointC reactor is massively behind schedule and over budget (and when it's done, it will be owned by the French government!).

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Just read this (from the FT via
@Fascinatorfun):
"The most recent UK contracts for difference auction priced electricity from offshore wind at £37 per MWh, compared to more than £100 for the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, while gas-fired electricity has cost several times more than this throughout 2022."
Now I'm wondering what the point of #HinkleyPointC is...