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British Energy

ALEX BRUMMER: End of the Road for the dunces who made the mess

The Government has moved a long distance in seven days. Last weekend it was drawing up its £50bn recapitalisation plan. City Editor Alex Brummer looks at the process has been fast-forwarded due to last week's market crash which...

EDF considers the sale of Eggborough power station

Robin Pagnamenta, Energy and Environment Editor EDF is to consider the sale of British Energy's sole coal-fired power station to clear competition hurdles. The French energy company is understood to be confident that regulators...

Savings: Don't put it under the floorboards - there are still safer places for cash

As the Icelandic collapse shatters people's confidence in savings accounts, Heather Connon looks at some of the options Last week, we said cash was king. Even if your savings are in a safe place - deposits in both Northern Rock...

TEST TEST TEST TEST UPDATE 1-British Energy says work at 2 stations lags

LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST Nuclear power operator British Energy (BGY ) said on Friday work on four reactors at two power stations was slightly behind schedule, and it was likely they would...

Power price drop maybe short-lived

LONDON (Reuters) - Wholesale electricity prices have slumped over the last two days, after hitting record highs early this week on winter supply fears, but could bounce back if several power stations do not restart soon.

Brit Energy expects 2 reactor restarts delay to '09

LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - British Energy Group Plc said on Friday two of four nuclear reactors at Hartlepool and Heysham 1 are not likely to return to service until early 2009. The company said Dungeness B21 was preparing to...

Shareholder Executive

Step forward the Shareholder Executive. Created in 2003 to improve the financial performance of public sector businesses that governments hoped eventually to be able to privatise, it was hardly set up to preside over the...

Doing the sums on renewables

THERE has been a flurry of energy announcements of late and it’s clear that the Scottish and English energy paths are starting to diverge. advertising The French nuclear company, largely state owned, has hoovered up British...

In times of trouble, reach for a Swiss banker

First Sir James Sassoon. Then Baroness Shriti Vadera. Now Robin Budenberg. It seems Gordon Brown cannot formulate a grand financial plan without the aid of a UBS, Swiss banker. Budenberg, a high flying UBS merger and...

Market fails to hold on to early gains

An early bounce in share prices after yesterday's plunge did not last out the day. But Barclays dropped 36.5p to 241.75p on suggestions it could tap shareholders for £3bn before thinking about making use of the government's...

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