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David Lynch

EDF investment hailed as ‘vote of confidence in UK’, despite reduced stake

File photo dated 01/09/22 of a general view of EDF’s Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk. Energy minister Michael Shanks has said communities “will still absolutely have a voice” in any planning processes for building new nuclear reactors. Issue date: Thursday February 6, 2025. - (PA Wire)

The Prime Minister has hailed investment by French energy giant EDF in the Sizewell C nuclear plant as “a vote of confidence in the UK as an investment destination”, though the company appears to be taking a reduced stake in the major project.

The French state-owned electricity company said it had agreed in principle to invest £1.1 billion in the power plant on the Suffolk coastline.

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