Major European utilities RWE and E.On have jointly secured two brownfield UK sites for new nuclear power plants - Oldbury in Gloucestershire and Wylfa in Wales - and have announced plans to build 6000 MWe of nuclear capacity in UK according to World Nuclear News.

E.On has also set out its plan for EUR 30 billion investment in the next two years. This includes renewables, gas and clean coal-fired plants. According to E.ON, "without nuclear energy - in particular without German nuclear energy - Europe won't reach its ambitious climate protection targets."