Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
27 April 2026
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Energy Security and Net Zero Committee House of Commons
00:00 - 00:58
Speaker 6
Welcome to this afternoon's session of the energy security net zero select committee and our inquiry revisiting the nuclear road map where we are delighted to welcome the nuclear minister, Lord Valens, and Sam White, the deputy director for nuclear power of the department for energy security and net zero. Gentlemen, you are very welcome this afternoon. And I will start by following up on some of the evidence we've heard about the achievability of the 24 gigawatts target. And there's been some concern raised with us that as to whether it is achievable by 2050. And perhaps you can tell us whether it is still the government's intention to deliver to that agenda and that target.
00:58 - 02:09
Speaker 2
Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, there's no doubt that we agree with this direction of the road road map. The '24 was an up to '24 gigawatts target. We think is is not something that's necessarily based in evidence as to why it should be that.
And we're cracking on. We're trying to get as much nuclear done as we can, which is why we've got Hinkley Point C and Seizwell C, now the small modular reactors progressing, and we'll continue to push on that. But in terms of what the absolute number should be, we have strategic spatial energy plan being produced by NISO, which will come later this year and then to the secretary of state, and then we'll go out for comments after that, and then we'll be published next year. And we want to look at nuclear in the context of the entirety of the need for energy in the grid rather than picking on a a target just for nuclear. So we're progressing as much as we can and and and really concentrating on delivery of that, but we're not bound by a particular figure.
02:10 - 02:26
Speaker 1
Okay. And we've heard that the combination of Hinkley C, Sizwell C, and Wilford would deliver about nine gigawatts. Where will the additional contributions likely come from?
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