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Early morning webinar on new #nuclear and it's role to support an economic recovery, hosted by @edfenergy , featuring Julia Pyke of @sizewellc Peter Lyburn, Jennifer O'Neill, @kirstygogan and David Cole
Julie Pyke highlights that one aspect in the energy story in the UK is that once significant investment and regulation has been overcome, then we can capitalise on this to enable us to address energy needs and climate change goals
Hinkley Point C - Unit 2 is being built much faster than Unit 1 (it's a dual reactor plant) - highlighting the benefit of fleet build - this is a helpful argument setting up the benefits of Sizewell C - much of the hurdles in the build process are paper based & regulation
Potential for Sizewell C to enable us to create 25,000 job opportunities - this is important in the context of a post COVID economic recovery
Watching political analysis of "what focus groups think" about clean economy and the intersection with other "voting tribes" always makes me nervous - are we measuring the system, or are we influencing the system?
Though it is sobering to listen to analysis indicating that the general public have no concept of the individual price of energy generation technologies - this is always important in bear in mind when we start bickering...
This explains how some of the messaging should move forward - there are simple take home messages that people get to land - but there are ways to "sell" a low carbon deal in the energy transitions - to address the changes moving forward
There is a risk that working class values that have been engaged by the Conservatives - where "change" is sold as an erosion of job security, class identity, and pushing values of cities >> market towns.
Most curious re: energy transition.
Most curious re: energy transition.
Jennifer O'Neill on financing - "We are in a challenging world, even before COVID-19 - stimulus efforts post crash - and this needs to be backed up by fiscal policy"
Why am I listening to the details of Jennifer O'Neill's talk about financing and markets, in a nuclear talk & re: infrastructure investment?
Finance is the most important aspect to address for an energy infrastructure project, especially for nuclear power.
Finance is the most important aspect to address for an energy infrastructure project, especially for nuclear power.
"Assets that experience a low level of volatility are a strategic assent for investment strategies by institutional investors - and we need to have public and private investment - with COVID-19 providing an opportunity to re-think investment re: CO2 pathways..."
