The UK’s largest producer of electricity. British Energy owns and operates eight nuclear power stations with a combined capacity of almost 9,000 MW and one coal-fired power station of 1,960 MW. The nuclear power stations include two types of nuclear reactors: the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR); and one (Sizewell B) pressurized water reactor (PWR). The AGR reactors include Hinkley, Heysham and others. In September 2008 British Energy was bought over by the French corporation EDF for 12.5 billion pounds sterling