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Sep 10, 2024 · Wednesday, 6 March 2024. An agreement to buy the Hitachi-owned sites for new nuclear at Wylfa in north Wales and Oldbury-on-Severn in southwest England has been reached for GBP160 million (USD203 million), Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced. Hitachi pulled out of plans for a nuclear project at Wylfa in 2020 (Image: Horizon Nuclear Power)
Nov 26, 2012 · 26 Nov (NucNet): Hitachi has completed the acquisition of the UK’s Horizon nuclear project from German utilities RWE and E.ON, the Japanese energy and engineering company said today. Hitachi now owns two sites – one at Wylfa in Anglesey and the other at Oldbury in Gloucestershire – and says it plans to build two to three 1,300 megawatt (MW) nuclear reactor units at each.
Sep 11, 2024 · Formed in 2009 to develop new nuclear power plants in the UK, Horizon was acquired by Hitachi in November 2012. The company is developing plans to build at least 5400 MWe of new nuclear power generation plant at the two sites.
London, UK, November 26, 2012 - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, "Hitachi") today announced it has completed the acquisition of Horizon Nuclear Power Limited (“Horizon”) from RWE npower plc and E.ON UK plc. Following the acquisition, Hitachi owns two sites at Wylfa, Anglesey, and Oldbury, South Gloucestershire. Horizon plans to build two to three ...
- EDF Is Currently The only Developer Building New Nuclear Plant in The UK.
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- Inactive Developers
Under the UK regulatory system, developers act as the licensees for nuclear new build. They are responsible for arranging financing, and securing planning and regulatory approval for new power plants. EDF and its investment partner CGN, and the currently inactive development groups Horizon and NuGen, are introduced below.
EDFis proposing to build four EPR reactors, with the first two units now under construction at Hinkley Point C, Somerset. EDF entered the UK nuclear generation market in 2009 with its acquisition of British Energy, which operated eight formerly state-owned nuclear power stations. UK utility group Centrica retains a 20 per cent stake in the existing...
Horizon Nuclear Power Horizon Nuclear Power was originally a joint venture between E.ON UK and RWE npower, acquired by Hitachi Ltd of Japan in 2012. Hitachi confirmed in January 2021 that it was winding up Horizon, and withdrawing its application to build a new nuclear power station at Wylfa Newydd. Horizon was founded as a 50/50 joint venture betw...
Jan 27, 2021 · It is all over for the £20bn project to build a new nuclear power plant on Anglesey, after developers dropped their planning bid. Horizon Nuclear Power has pulled a request to approve reactor ...
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Jan 27, 2021 · It is all over for the £20bn project to build a new nuclear power plant on Anglesey, after developers dropped their planning bid. Horizon Nuclear Power has pulled a request to approve reactor ...
