British electricity industry

After an initial failed attempt to privatize nuclear power with the rest of the British electricity industry in 1990, the government put the nuclear stations into two state-owned companies. Nuclear Electric for the English and Welsh stations, and Scottish Nuclear for the Scottish stations. In 1995 the more modern advanced gas cooled reactor (AGR) stations plus the new pressurized water reactor (PWR) at Sizewell were privatized in the form of a new company, British Energy pic. The older Magnox reactors were retained in a company called Magnox Electric. 

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After privatisation of the electrical industry, the AGRs became part of the Nuclear Energy company, which was still pubhcly owned. In 1996, they became part of a private company, British Energy. In 2009, British Energy was acquired by Electricit6 de Erance (EDE), and in 2010, changed its name to EDF Energy. 

The British electric power industry also appears to have initially overestimated the costs of reducing SO2 emissions. It recently cut its cost estimates in half in the face of mounting pressure from the European Economic Community for a 60% reduction in SO2 emissions in Europe by 1995. Britain s Central Electricity Generating Board had reported in the fall of 1983 that abatement would cost 4,000 million pounds in the spring of 1984 the Board revised its estimate downward to 1,400 million pounds, or 120 million pounds per plant. The price of electricity to consumers would increase by 4% according to current industry estimates. 

Demand for natural gas, in all markets—residential, commercial, and industrial—is projected to grow into the foreseeable future, particularly in the electric power generation market and the industrial sector. Total natural gas use in the United States is projected to grow from 20.1 quadrillion British thermal units in 1992 to 26.1 by 2010, an average growth rate of 1.6 percent per year. 

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