Carbon capture, usage and storge (CCUS) and hydrogen projects are among key initiatives to gain investment as part of the government’s new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, announced today.
The strategy is “an ambitious blueprint” to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and includes over £1bn of funding to cut emissions from…
Bechtel is partnering with Swedish floating windfarm developer Hexicon to deliver large-scale offshore floating wind projects along the British coastline.
The floating technology can be deployed in deep waters at a lower cost of energy than other solutions – a potential game-changer for the industry that currently relies on shallow water…
A Madrid-based green energy company is pioneering the use of bladeless windfarms to harness wind energy.
Created by startup Vortex Bladeless, the 3m-high cylindrical turbines are designed to oscillate within the wind range, generating electricity from the vibration. The bladeless design recently won the approval of Norway’s state energy company Equinor,…
Turbine towers for the proposed Dogger Bank wind farm could be made in Scotland under plans for a new £100M factory.
According to The Times, the UK and Scottish governments are understood to be in talks about the potential for the Global Energy Group to produce some of the largest wind…
HS2 Ltd has announced a pilot project to repurpose worn-out wind turbine blades for use on the high speed rail project.
The innovation, believed to be a world first, will use suitable sections cut from decommissioned wind turbine blades in reinforced concrete instead of steel rebar. HS2 Ltd estimates that the…
Tidal energy: it’s a much discussed, yet significantly underappreciated subject, despite the fact these projects could deliver huge benefits to society, delivering no-carbon power by tapping into the only constant, everlasting renewable our planet has.
Unfortunately, the UK’s tidal power potential remains untapped, and it baffles me why this remains the…
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has decided to intervene with plans for a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria.
The plans for the £165M coal mine were originally approved by Cumbria County Council in October. The government could have called in the plans to make a final decision but in January, Jenrick said…
Portsmouth City Council has raised conflict of interest concerns over proposals for a cross-channel power link between England and France.
According to the Guardian, a major Conservative party donor and former Russian arms boss, Alexander Temerko, has now taken joint control of Aquind, the company behind the project. The council has…
Two new ports will be constructed on the Humber and Teesside to build the next generation of offshore wind projects as part of a £95M investment to boost the industry and create 6,000 new jobs in the North.
Able Marine Energy Park, on the south bank of the River Humber, will…
Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall and Murphy have won multiple lots on National Grid’s £1.5bn RIIO-2 electricity transmission construction framework.
They are among nine contractors to have won places on the framework. The three lots in the five-year framework cover construction, refurbishment and decommissioning of both overhead line and underground cable systems…
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