Construction of General Fusion’s demonstration fusion energy plant at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Campus in Oxfordshire will begin this summer, following South Oxfordshire District Council’s decision to grant planning permission.
The building will be 10,500m2 in area – 70% scale of a commercial power plant. Once complete, General…
Tidal power could become a vital portion of the UK’s energy mix and help provide energy security if given appropriate government priority and backing, according to experts.
Earlier this month the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), a group of cross-party MPs, published a report into the government’s 2022 British Energy Security Strategy…
National Grid is conducting a market engagement exercise regarding an electricity infrastructure project that will deliver over 1,000km of line.
Named the New Infrastructure Onshore Delivery Programme (NIODP), the project has been described as “unprecedented” by the National Grid. It will involve the development and construction of over 1,000km of new…
Concerns have been raised that the rollout of small modular reactors (SMRs) in the UK could be delayed due to funding challenges.
According to The Times, a funding deal for the first fleet of mini nuclear reactors is not expected to materialise for at least another 12 months, with a row…
A group of cross-party MPs has said that the government’s energy security strategy had “notable gaps on renewable energy” and has demanded that it sets stated ambitions for tidal power and onshore wind capacity in its renewed net zero strategy.
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has released its 4th Report –…
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served a number of enforcement notices at the Hinkley Point C site in Somerset following the death of a worker in November.
Jason Waring, who was working on the site, died after a "fatal construction traffic incident during planned work activities". ONR inspectors have…
Anglian Water has submitted plans for a 68km section of its £400M pipeline that will stretch from North Lincolnshire to Suffolk and Essex.
The plans reveal designs for the most southernly section from Bury St Edmunds to Colchester of the 500km total water mains scheme. Hundreds of kilometres of new interconnecting…
Two legal challenges are being drawn up against plans to build the first coalmine in the UK for 30 years.
Communities secretary Michael Gove granted planning approval for the £165M Woodhouse Colliery in Cumbria last month. The decision immediately caused controversy with Chairman of the Climate Change Committee Lord Deben saying…
Key decisions on the country’s major infrastructure projects are expected in 2023.
Over the course of the next 12 months, transport secretary Mark Harper will have to make big decisions on the country’s planned road building schemes with planning rulings needed in relation to the Stonehenge Tunnel, Lower Thames Crossing and…
US energy firm NuScale Power is "ready to move forward" with its small modular reactor (SMR) technology in the UK.
Going forward, SMRs, alongside large-scale nuclear plants, are seen as a crucial tool in the country’s battle against the energy crisis and drive towards net zero. The government established a new body…
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