As far as I could tell, according to the article this delay is caused by the Covid pandemic.
Brexit could be playing a big part too.
Worker and material shortage have been problems caused by Brexit in other industries too. Inflation is also blamed for the increased price, and that has been worse in UK after Brexit than comparable EU countries.
But we are talking about a 12 year delay now, no way this latest delay is all due to Covid and Brexit. Now they complain about Piping complexity 7 years after it was due! Really?
Great technology! It’s totally going to solve climate change!
We need to accept a premium for the cleanest and safest baseload generation we have.
You can build a lot of batteries for 35 billion. And those don’t produce waste that you have to store for millennia.
At the cost it comes in at, it competes with longer-duration energy storage. Very expensive, and only has value to the extent that it reduces the need to build storage instead.
My bet that is sarcasm and people are stupidly downvoting you.
No one seems to get sarcasm on this website.