Fri Aug 26, 2016 12:30pm BST
Britain does not need the Hinkley Point C nuclear project and could use a mixture of alternative resources to guarantee its future energy needs at a lower cost, an energy and climate think tank said on Friday.
Britain stunned the energy industry in July when, at the last minute, it failed to sign off on an 18 billion-pound plan by France's EDF (EDF.PA) to build two reactors at Hinkley with financial backing from a Chinese state-owned company. (...)