{"id":1708,"date":"2016-02-16T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T22:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/?page_id=1708"},"modified":"2021-08-29T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T09:35:33","slug":"edf-extends-the-operating-life-of-torness-to-2030","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/edf-extends-the-operating-life-of-torness-to-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"EDF extends the operating life of Torness to 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDF Energy announced on February 16th 2016 that they have extended the expected operating life of Torness and three other UK nuclear\u00a0power stations &#8211; Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 in Lancashire, and Hartlepool in Teeside.<\/p>\n<p>Torness and Heysham 2 have been extended by 7 years to 2030, while Heysham 1 and Hartlepool have extended by five years to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The four nuclear plants together supply electricity to around a quarter of the UK\u2019s homes .<\/p>\n<p>To read EDF Energy&#8217;s official announcement on\u00a0the plants life extension please click <a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2016\/02\/160216.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDF Energy announced on February 16th 2016 that they have extended the expected operating life of Torness and three other UK nuclear\u00a0power stations &#8211; Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 in Lancashire, and Hartlepool in Teeside. Torness and Heysham 2 have been extended by 7 years to 2030, while Heysham 1 and Hartlepool have extended by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/edf-extends-the-operating-life-of-torness-to-2030\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EDF extends the operating life of Torness to 2030&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":1028,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1708","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1708\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}