EDF won’t make ‘massive fortune’ from Hinkley, says director

EDF won’t make a “massive fortune” out of its Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant due to returns being eroded by delays to the project and escalating costs, a director has admitted. Giving evidence to the House of Commons energy security and net zero committee, EDF Energy’s director of strategy and regulation Paul Spence was grilled on how much constructing the first new nuclear power station in a generation would cost the consumer.

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