Ministers have announced a new plan to remove barriers to smart and battery technology and allow homes and businesses to be more flexible around energy usage, saving up to £40bn between now and 2050.
Energy regulator Ofgem’s report Upgrading our energy system has set out how a smarter energy system and more…
Laing O’Rourke has joined the Rolls-Royce led British consortium looking to win government funding to develop its small modular reactor (SMR) programme.
The engineering firm joins Rolls-Royce, Amec Foster Wheeler, Arup, Nuvia and the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in the UK SMR joint venture, which is designing an innovative nuclear…
Morgan Sindall has been awarded a £60M, two year extension to an existing framework with Western Power Distribution.
The new two year deal will extend the existing three year framework agreement – worth £30M annually – to deliver excavation, cable laying and reinstatement works in the West Midlands region. The project…
The Amazon basin could suffer irreparable damage if a significant number of dams are built as planned, causing environmental scientists to push for alternative renewables.
In a study by 10 universities and research centres, scientists found that the impacts of 140 built dams and potential impacts of a further 428 planned…
Engineering and renewable energy experts have said that despite US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement being a “disaster”, Europe and China should seize the opportunity to lead green innovation.
On June 1, President Trump announced the US will be leaving the Paris agreement, a voluntary arrangement between 195 countries to stop…
Design and infrastructure growth barriers in the floating offshore wind sector are to be tackled through three major Carbon Trust studies.
Each study, led by the Carbon Trust and commissioned by a joint industry partnership including the Scottish government and eight energy companies, will focus on barriers to scaling up floating…
A controversial fracking scheme has become a key campaigning issue in a Yorkshire borough ahead of next week’s election.
North Yorkshire County Council last year approved an application from Third Energy to frack for shale gas at a well in Kirby Misperton. The decision was met with dismay by environmental groups and although Friends of…
Completion of a £145M Derby energy-from-waste scheme (EfW) has been delayed for up to a year, it has emerged.
Waste recovery firm Renewi revealed in its annual results statement that the Derby and Derbyshire Waste Treatment Centre in Sinfin may not be fully operational until next year. Renewi – formed this…
Work on a £1.1bn power transmission project in Scotland has taken a step forward after a purpose built, cable-laying vessel departed from Aberdeen harbour.
The NKT Victoria will lay 113km of high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable across the Moray Firth connecting Caithness to Moray, finishing work in September. It…
National Grid is stopping work on its grid connection to the proposed Moorside nuclear power station following the announcement of a strategic review of the plant’s future.
In a statement, National Grid said it had decided to “pause” its work to seek planning consent for the North West Coast Connections project…
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