The additional nuclear power plants would also have the advantage of being less vulnerable to fuel price changes than coal or gas-fired generation, helping to enhance the security of electricity supplies.
The electricity market reforms (EMR) proposed by the UK government as part of the UK Energy Bill are aimed at incentivising investment in low carbon energy while also ensuring the security of electricity supply.
Forrester's Tom Gormley argues that such service providers could become the utilities of the next century, providing an essential service with all the reliability and security of the electricity or telephone company.
Mr Arditti said a States debate on the security of Guernsey's electricity supply was needed as a matter of urgency.
"The UK has incredible offshore wind resources and this sector will play a key part in improving security of supply and decarbonising our electricity generating system, " said a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
The 10-year-old Moyle electricity interconnector ensures cheaper electricity and security of supply between NI and Great Britain.
Germany's aversion to nuclear power may run counter to its desire for both cheap electricity and security of supplies.
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We, the United States of America, have an independent regulatory agency whose sole mission is to constantly review and evaluate the safety and security of the reactors in the United States, which provide 20 percent of the electricity that Americans consume.
When solar entrepreneur Edward Fenster looks across the roofs of photo voltaic panels his company has installed on thousands of homes, he sees not just a source of clean green electricity but also security.
But the chief executive, his workforce and their customers can at least rest a little more comfortably over the issue of energy security now that the British gas and electricity giant is set to build a massive 885-megawatt gas-fired plant in Langage, Devon.
And despite the fact that electricity is in short supply and that there is fear because of the security situation, our material situation has improved a lot.
Some of the conditions we have to work and operate in for long periods of time lack basic things like electricity and running water, before you get on to providing the security that we're there to do.
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