‘The U.K. has a competitiveness deficit in its energy costs—that’s a real call to action,’ says EDF U.K. chair

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Sir Alex Chisholm has been U.K, chair of EDF for more than two years, but he is still awestruck by the power on display when visiting any one of the company’s eight nuclear power stations.

At Sizewell, which is currently home to Sizewell B, the U.K.’s largest operational nuclear site, he says: “You can stand on the bridge there and feel, wow, this is how we actually make this. This is the room with the magic that’s powering 1.2 million homes, and you’re going to see these giant machines going around amazingly fast. You think, well, that is power.”