Campaign group Suffolk Energy Action Solutions (Seas) has launched a national petition and short documentary starring Ralph Fiennes to stop National Grid's infrastructure proposals as part of The Great Grid Upgrade.
The Great Grid Upgrade is designed to help the UK switch to clean energy to ensure the electricity network is…
The Environment Agency has defended its decision to continue its flood alert warning contract worth £19.5M to tarnished Japanese software company Fujitsu, despite its involvement in the Horizon Post Office scandal.
The Japanese IT giant is the subject of an inquiry to assess its part in the Horizon software scandal, which…
Global renewable power capacity is now expected to grow to 7,300 GW by 2028, having increased by 50% from 2022 to 2023, according to a new report.
The Renewables 2023 report is published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), an autonomous Paris-based intergovernmental organisation that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data…
Preparation for work on two A38 schemes as part of the £50M Bromsgrove Route Enhancement Programme (BREP) in Worcestershire will start this month.
Site clearance and preparatory works are due to start on the A38 through Bromsgrove on what are referred to as Scheme B at the Buntsford Drive and Sherwood…
A “world first” venture to drill directly into a “magma chamber” in Krapla, northern Iceland, is seeking $100M (£79M) to enable initial drilling to get underway by 2027.
The funding will support specialist drilling equipment and a team of handpicked specialist engineers from companies including Cowi-owned Mannvit. Their task will be…
Engineers will commence work to lay Essex’s new 19.5km water pipeline in February.
Essex & Suffolk Water’s £20M pipeline will run between Layer-de-la-Haye and Langford and is designed to help make water supplies to 1.5M customers in those areas more resilient. It will do this by enabling water to be efficiently…
Breakthrough has been made on the last 3m of Australia’s Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro scheme’s transformer hall cavern ‘crown’ or ceiling.
When completed, the 223m long, 46m high transformer hall and 251m long, 52m high machine hall will jointly form one of the largest and deepest caverns in the world, big enough…
The festive season has seen the new interconnector between Denmark and England open, albeit with an initial capacity of 800MW as opposed to the planned 1,400MW.
The Viking Link is a 760km 1.4GW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line traversing the North Sea that came into operation at the lower capacity…
Graham, working on behalf of National Highways, has completed the third and final beam lift of the year on the on the £170M M25 junction 28 upgrade.
The installation saw Graham lifting 16 pre-cast beams – each weighing 35t and measuring 23m – into position for the construction of the new…
Balfour Beatty has installed six offshore liners for the cooling system at Hinkley Point C.
The company described the installation as a key milestone in the completion of the scheme's offshore works, which are scheduled to conclude in the first half of 2024. Earlier this month, Hinkley Point C’s first reactor…
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