As demand for carbon free producst grows, players are looking more carefully at reducing their carbon footprint. Not surprisingly, the lobbying for nuclear to be included as a green product would release the current squeeze on low carbon electricity production. The industry must be careful that they do not try and achieve something which cannot be provided. For example a pure green energy mix is highly inflexible and will result in a  massive price increases in the flexible market but no doubt. Coal whilst seen as a pariah will of course have to run to provide flexibility but it is limited to 20,000 hours a year in total under the LPCD in 2008 then clearly something else must take up the slack and interestingly whilst gas is the main player it is not green.

Defra and industry must come to a reasonable idea as to how this can all work.