Planning inspectors recommended refusal for new nuclear power plant,
Nation Cymru
5th February 2021, Gareth Williams, local democracy reporter
Plans to build a new nuclear power station were likely to be refused even before the project was shelved by backers.
UK Government appointed planning inspectors had recommended that the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey be rejected over a number of concerns from experts.
The application has since been withdrawn after Hitachi, the company behind the project, decided that the power plant was too expensive to build without a funding deal with the UK Government in place.
Energy company Horizon – a subsidiary of Hitatchi – needed an Approval of the Development Consent Order (DCO) to allow the £16bn project to go ahead.
Signboard of Hitachi Ltd. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The government of Wales has approached Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. about acquiring the Horizon nuclear power project in Anglesey and its staff, The Sunday Times reported.
Hitachi announced in September that it was scrapping plans to build a nuclear power plant in Britain, after its UK unit Horizon Nuclear Power failed to find private investors or secure sufficient government support for the stalled Wylfa project in Anglesey, Wales.
The Labour-led government approached the Japanese industrial conglomerate to keep the project alive in a caretaker role until a developer can be found, the report said.
Hitachi continuing discussions with UK and Welsh governments over Wylfa land
Plans for their nuclear plant on Anglesey have been scrapped but hopes remain that new developer can be found
13:03, 8 FEB 2021
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Hitachi said it is continuing discussions with UK and Welsh governments over the future of the Wylfa site on Anglesey.
A failure to reach a funding agreement between Hitachi and the UK Government saw work ‘paused’ in January 2019 and last September the Japanese firm said it was withdrawing from the scheme.
The Welsh Government could take over the Wylfa site from Hitachi in a bid to keep plans for a proposed nuclear power plant alive, according to reports.
The Welsh administration has approached Japan's Hitachi Ltd about acquiring the Horizon nuclear power project in Anglesey and its staff, The Sunday Times reported https://bit.ly/2YViB5j.