and edf is now in talks with the government to build a similar plant in suffolk. £20 billion project at sizewell could generate 7% of the uk's electricity needs. ministers say it would create thousands ofjobs and contribute to their plan to get to net—zero carbon emissions by 2050. our business editor simon jack examines the details. the last of a generation. by 2035, sizewell b will be the last uk nuclear power station in operation. nuclear supplies 20% of the uk's electricity, and the government has always said it's committed to new plants. it wants to build an identical copy of this one under construction in somerset. nuclear produces huge amounts of low carbon electricity when it's built, which the uk will need to hit net zero, according to the nuclear industry. we're going to need a lot of low carbon electricity if we're going to meet net zero — four times what we currently have, and that means distributed energy, it means storage, it means demand management, but it also means that you've got to have a backbone of that electricity system, and so we have to ha

and edf is now in talks with the government to build a similar plant in suffolk.ctricity needs. ministers say it would create thousands ofjobs and contribute to their plan to get to net—zero carbon emissions by 2050. our business editor simon jack examines the details. the last of a generation. by 2035, sizewell b will be the last uk nuclear power station in operation. nuclear supplies 20% of the uk's electricity,

edf energy has put an enormous amount of money into training facilities, not just amount of money intossioning, partly to do with running the existing fleet of stations and we must embrace this because it is a future success, it isa because it is a future success, it is a success, so let's build on what we've got, and going from one to the other, i would like to also make a point about upland farming. the honourable member for surrey has been to exmoor, he knows how tough it can be up on those hills and how tough it can be for any upland farm, andi tough it can be for any upland farm, and i would urge the government, please, we now have the freedom to do what we want, the agricultural bill has gone through, but we got a bill has gone through, but we got a bill on that. the use of elms is fine but please don't use this as an excuse with our freedom within this bill to say that we will use this to make farming more difficult across the united kingdom. i also covered the united kingdom. i also covered the lowest pa rt the united kingdom. i also covered the lowest part which is the levels.

today the government has announced it is beginning formal negotiations with the french nuclear giant edfin suffolk. let's get more from our environment analyst roger harrabin. it is better say you have been waiting some time for these proposals from the government. very long time. it does look like a cautious green light for new clea ra nce cautious green light for new clearance at sizewell. not going to but the government has decided clearly that it wants to have new nuclear as part of its energy mix for the future and it is in talks now about trying to bring down the cost which is still extremely high. and bringing down the cost to consumers too, one way or another? bringing down the cost for consumers. this is really interesting. what is happening now, we are in the middle now of an energy relevant elution in which electricity is going to become a premium fuel for heating our homes and running ourcars premium fuel for heating our homes and running our cars and all sorts of processes but the government is concerned, and other people are too, that it did it make if it is not careful, th

customers have been pgnig and edf of france. >> do still have naysayers? >> when you put the systems on pass as one of the first, and you plug it into your process, it's difficult say it has not been done when it has clearly been done. kicker,w to commodity americans stocked up on a number of foods this year, including pb&j. nuts and seeds have been a major beneficiary of more at home eating. moving 14% in 2020 two nearly 2.7 million dollars. i could tub subpoena better. here's what's on the radar before you go for the next week. on monday, opec-plus continues. on wednesday we have an oil inventory number and the world food price index. that does it for bloomberg's commodities edge. ,atches every thursday at 1:00 happy new year's. see you in 2021. this is bloomberg. ♪ it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? delegating? oh, good one. move your xfinity services without breakin

edf you. or on the facebook comments at harvard pubc health. but now onto our distinguished guest, doctor fauci, welcome s sir. >> thank you for having me. appreciate it. >>ese conversations are so important. i would like to cover a variety of topics but let me a about the news today. u heard about these two people the uk who received the pfizer vacci yesterday and to health care workers, nurses, i believe, with signifince allergic reactions in rponse to the vaccine, pretty clearly within moments of having received the vaccine how concerning is this? >> well, it obviously is of some concern because there are people who have what is called allergic diathesis or attendant get allergic reactions but both of those indivuals, i believe, did in fact have that tendency. what we need to doooking forward and the are the kind of things that happen when you implement large vacci programs. remember, we had 300 people in the moderna trial and 44000 people in the pfizer trial but once you start implenting the actual utilization of the vaccine in a clinical s

but just look at the news this morning about the large contract under consideration for edf to build stations in suffolk. look at the pictures on the side of red buses driving around london. lots of them have a picture of the river seine flowing through paris. french companies are busy in the uk. the british exporters are sending goods and services all over europe. the car industry is completely interconnected with the cars being made, assembled and assault in different places all the time. all this talk about australia is simply wrong. the uk is not on the other side of the world from europe. so obviously, trade and business will have to continue. they were taking place when the eu was a member of the... in the uk was a member of the eu command are pretty simple because of the hard work of many decades to get the european single market to the stage it is now. really the uk has left that. and therefore, it won't be the same as before. there will be friction. but everybody should try very hard to make sure that that friction is limited as much as possible. but either way the uk is goi