E.ON Protests British Minister's Comments on Proposed Levy, Times Reports
E.ON AG has written to U.K. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne to protest against remarks he made last week at a House of Commons committee hearing suggesting a rejection of a proposed consumer-funded levy to support new British nuclear stations, the London-based Times reported.
Volcker Beckers, chief executive officer of RWE npower Plc, E.ON’s joint venture partner in a planned U.K. nuclear project, also sought clarification of the remarks from officials in Huhne’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, the newspaper said, without saying where it got the information.
Both companies are partners in Horizon Nuclear Power, which aims to spend 15 billion pounds ($23 billion) building nuclear reactors in the U.K. At the committee meeting, Huhne backed a proposal from EDF SA to establish a “carbon floor price,” to improve the competitiveness of nuclear power over more-polluting coal and gas power plants, the Times said.
RWE and E.ON are said to believe the comments contradict arguments they have presented to Huhne since the general election in May, the newspaper said.
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