Isn’t it time you made it your New Year’s Resolution to switch from the Big 6 energy suppliers, if you haven’t already? You know you’ve been meaning to do it for quite some time now. It takes almost no time at all. Even those companies that have pulled out of building new reactors in Britain, such as Eon, RWE and Iberdrola, have nuclear interests elsewhere, apart from SSE. Despite having pulled out of the consortium planning to build new reactors at Hinkley Point and Sizewell. British Gas owner, Centrica, retains a 20 per cent stake in EDF Energy’s eight nuclear power stations. A good place to start your switch is here:
Although only 1% of the electricity sold by SSE in the year 2012/13 was nuclear generated, 54% was coal. See: http://www.electricityinfo.org/index.php