Published January 2014 | Version v1
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Electricity market reform and nuclear power in United Kingdom

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, Strategy Research Unit, Tokyo (Japan)

Description

This paper investigates an impact of electricity market reform on nuclear power generation by making reference to policy change on nuclear energy in United Kingdom. There have been no nuclear power plants' construction plans after 1996 when British Energy, the nuclear operator in UK, canceled its plans. Constructing new nuclear power plants with a huge amount of initial cost faced a severe difficulty under the competitive, liberalized electricity market. However, in 2000s, United Kingdom faced new challenges on climate change and energy security and this made the government to change its nuclear power policy. From case study on United Kingdom, it could be said that policy support in view of climate change and energy security is needed in order to construct new nuclear power plants. (author)

Part of:
Proceedings of the 30th conference on energy, economy, and environment

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 30th conference on energy, economy, and environment
Imprint Pagination
669 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 51-56

Conference

Title
30. conference on energy, economy, and environment
Dates
23-24 Jan 2014
Place
Tokyo (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
45096278
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CONSTRUCTION; COST; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; FORECASTING; INVESTMENT; MARKET; NUCLEAR POWER; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLANNING; POWER SUPPLIES; TRADE; UNITED KINGDOM
Descriptors DEC
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; EUROPE; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER; POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; WESTERN EUROPE

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Notes
Available as CD-ROM Data in PDF format, Folder Name: pdfs, Paper ID: 4-2.pdf