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UK strikes deal with private investors to build £38bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant


Government’s deal with EDF, Centrica and other backers marks end of 15-year journey to win funding for project

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The UK government has struck a deal worth more than £38bn with private investors to back Britain’s biggest nuclear project in a generation at the Sizewell C site on the Suffolk coast.

The long-awaited multibillion-pound deal, which will be paid for through taxes and energy bills, gives the final go-ahead for construction of the nuclear project which has almost doubled in cost from when it was first proposed.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/22/uk-deal-sizewell-c-nuclear-power-plant-investors-edf

Author : Jillian Ambrose

Publish date : 2025-07-22 15:35:00

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