Gas-fired power stations are likely to supply Britain with the energy required to keep it running while the country is waiting for its nuclear power stations to come on stream, an EDF Energy senior executive has suggested.
Bernard Dupraz, senior executive vice president for power generation at EDF, has explained that due to the lack of a heavily established supply chain construction of Britain's new power stations will take longer than it would have in the 1970s.
"During the 1970s, EDF built five nuclear power stations per year for a period of ten years," the Times quoted him as saying.
"The situation today in Europe is one per year, then rising to two and three per year. You cannot yet imagine five per year."
As such, gas-fired power stations, reliant on foreign imports of natural gas, will be crucial as the country is facing an energy gap of 22.5 gigawatts.
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