In just a few weeks time, the South West and South Wales could be celebrating a major industrial and energy breakthrough with the announcement that our region’s bid to site the UK’s first prototype £220m fusion plant on the Severn Estuary has been successful.
I haven’t got a Government crystal ball but I believe the Severn Edge bid led by the Western Gateway Partnership is destined to be awarded to the two decommissioned former nuclear sites at Oldbury, in South Gloucestershire, and Berkeley, in Gloucestershire.
As we know, our bid is in the final five sites being considered by Government, and I think their final decision could be announced before Parliament rises for its summer recess at the end of July.
