Conservation groups including the National Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and Norfolk Wildlife Trust have warned that the proposed £2bn tidal barrage across The Wash in East Anglia would greatly harm the nature and habitat in the area.
Plans were revealed last week by developer Port Evo for a 17.7km tidal barrage…
Plans for Hinkley Point C are "unchanged", despite fears that the project could be facing an 11 year delay.
Reports surfaced this week suggesting that the nuclear power station in Somerset will not be operational until 2036, 11 years after its original 2025 completion date. However a Hinkley Point C spokesperson…
Manchester Airport has teamed with the government-backed North West England industrial decarbonisation project HyNet on plans to become the first UK airport with a direct supply of low carbon hydrogen fuel.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the airport and Progressive Energy and Cadent, two of the founding…
Nuclear energy has been assigned a major role in the UK’s energy strategy. But the strategy will fail unless the government supports and enables the delivery of small nuclear reactors alongside faster construction of large reactors.
In April 2022 the UK government set out its ambition to quadruple UK nuclear…
Nuclear decommissioning company Sellafield Ltd is looking for suppliers to join its £3.44bn Infrastructure Delivery Partnership (IDP) to carry out projects and tasks on the Sellafield nuclear plant site in West Cumbria.
The IDP will be divided into four lots, featuring one strategic partner and three delivery partners. One supplier will…
Plans to power a refinery in Scotland with a Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) are likely to stall due to opposition from the Scottish government.
Government officials have said they will block any moves to power the Grangemouth refinery on the Firth of Forth with a nuclear reactor. According to the…
A worker has been killed at the North London Waste Authority's Edmonton EcoPark site in north London, following a collision involving a heavy goods vehicle.
The incident occurred last week at the £683M Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) site. According to police, the worker– a man in his 50s – was…
Better use of data is critical to improved decision making and driving efficiencies in design, construction and operation of infrastructure, according to Bentley Systems chief operating officer Nicholas Cumins.
Cumins called on the sector to become more data centric as he revealed the software business’ latest launches to the UK market…
Engineering consultancy HDR and infrastructure project solutions firm Enable have joined with technology giant Siemens to deliver a renewable energy transport hub, which will sit alongside a £1.7bn renewable energy scheme in Swansea.
The consortium will work on a the energy hub as part of the bigger Blue Eden scheme in…
Plans have been revealed for a £2bn tidal barrage across The Wash, a bay in East Anglia between Lincolnshire and Norfolk, which will feature the world’s first tidal energy-powered deep sea container terminal, act as a flood defence and have rail and road elements.
The 17.7km barrage, named Centre Port UK,…
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