Hinkley nuclear power is being priced out by renewables | Nils Pratley

The UK should concentrate on wind- and gas-fired stations, and involve nuclear only if it can vaguely compete on priceHinkley Point C nuclear power station was conceived in the days when offshore wind cost £150 per megawatt hour and a few misguided souls, some of them government ministers, thought a barrel of oil was heading towards $200.Successive governments swallowed the line that Hinkley represented a plausible answer to the UK’s threefold energy conundrum – keeping the lig