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Coalition is preparing to publish a paper on the reform of the electricity - market essentially to facilitate nuclear energy companies are perfectly aware of the potential future benefits on the table. Only a few weeks before its publication, everyone is back and forth to be the main beneficiary of these changes, reform forces substantially the price of electricity to make nuclear a more attractive investment.

The problem today is that the price of electricity generated by the cheap coal and gas is nearly ￡ 50 per mégawattheure.Elle must be more like ￡ 60 attractive profitability or ￡ 80 for businesses to make the effort to begin the construction of nuclear power plants, low carbon emission.

Consumers will be on foot the Bill for this increase in prices, as the Government taxes effectively plant fossil fuels depending on the amount of carbon dioxide they emit and encourage the construction of the nuclear power and renewable energies.

Interview with the Sunday Telegraph, five largest companies patterns to Britain argue that fundamental reform is necessary to drive investment.

They promote a "price floor carbon" (artificially raise the cost of emissions trading) as well as payments capability (to their available plant in order to cash generators) and two favour a "duty of carbon" (forcing companies to produce a number of energy sources of carbon).

After all, why companies put huge capital costs of constructing a nuclear power plant ￡ emissions decent securing their returns unless they were certain that they could get an electricity prices? now rush is on between business and Government to secure market changes that best meet their portfolios of assets. The Government faces a difficult between the vested interests to develop a system that is fair and negotiation.

Some - such as E.on and Scottish and southern energy - companies are aware that there should be no premature harmful effect on their portfolios of fossil fuels, while others — such as the EDF - are almost exclusively for nuclear lobbying support.

"There are layers layers layers of subsidies, says Vincent De Rivaz, President and CEO of EDF, who hopes to build the first nuclear power plant with Centrica in 2018." "I hope that the Government will create something that gets rid of complicated system.

It is crucial, redesign the market will reduce the risk of low prices for Giants nucléaires.Toutefois, the spectrum of construction risk remains - with the possibility of cost overruns and delays that have asked Finland and France projects. No country in the world succeeded in convincing the nuclear operators to invest without some form of guarantee of Government, which is what did President Barack Obama in the United States.

Nuclear companies reaching reform of the market and higher prices will soon open another front in requiring that the UK consumer finance risk?"I would hope not," says Sam Laidlaw, CEO of Centrica. " At the time that the first plant is constructed Hinkley we will have seen Flamanville, Finland. I think that the risk will be clearer.?

In addition, the balance sheets of major European utilities, especially RWE and E.on, are difficulty in fighting fit shape responsibilities supplémentaires.E.on said this week that he sells €15bn (in billions of ￡) assets, reduce capital €4 three-year spending and attempting to markets outside Europe, where there is less punitive restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide.

In the meantime, RWE has repeated his warning may reduce capital expenditures and dividends, to increase the price reductions and take account of sales of assets.Mr. Paul Goldby, Chief Executive of E.on, denied first plant construction company RWE by 2020 would be delayed by cutbacks in expenditure.

"Investment is more rigorous for all businesses," he says. "There will be more difficult to meet all relevant financial yields b.c ' is the reform of the market occurs.

An option for large companies is to allocate the risk by introducing partners financiers.Volker Beckers, CEO of RWE npower, put caution against another difficult topic: "the next challenge is how us attract more players financial on the market?" he said. "Banks and funding infrastructure - the deux.Nous need more cost-effectively further liquidity.?

Investment conditions become not easier, with struggling to end profit.En account utilities and low gasoline prices, the Government has no choice but to give the Giants given United Kingdom generation plants and a mixture of nuclear fuel requirement needs to allocate the risk of dependence on a sole source of energy.

Richard Nourse, the leader of the Green Fund Novus Modus and the man who oversaw the sale of British Energy FED says that nuclear is interesting compared to other options. "The key to the Government issue will develop energy policy low emission of carbon in the most cost-effective way for the consommateurs.Dans this context, new nuclear power has certainly a jouer.Frais role yet very favorably compare with renewable energy sources.?

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