scheduled to open in 2025 so next year forjust over half the current expected cost. that was delayed to 2027, and the french utility operator edf now says it will be another two years before the project is complete. it s the latest setback in energy capacity and security for the uk and may put pressure on the british government to intervene. our business editor simon jack explains the wider implications for the british government. edf will shoulder the cost of this because they agreed back in 2016 or a higher price at which they would supply electricity, they would take the risk, but it is notjust their problem because the government wants to build an identical plant at sizewell in suffolk, and for that plant, customers will be on the hook a little bit, it will be added to their bills to pay for the construction over a decade or so. the government has put into 5p of its own money and trying to raise private capital to try and fund this. they say they are still supporters