A £1.4bn economic boost for the UK could be generated if three new floating offshore wind farms are constructed in the Celtic Sea, according to a report commissioned by the Crown Estate.
The Celtic Sea Blueprint by consultancy Lumen Energy & Environment describes the minimum requirements needed to deliver the three…
Nearly two thirds (63%) of energy companies operating within the UK have or plan to move their investments abroad, a study devised by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) has revealed.
These figures came from a UKSIF survey of 346 decision makers within its network of members, who combined…
Work will soon be starting on work site creation and ground trials at the Sizewell C site.
In mid-January, the Sizewell C project triggered its development consent order (DCO), which the government approved in July 2022. This gave the project the formal green light for construction to begin. The final go-ahead came…
Discussions about a nuclear waste geological disposal facility (GDF) in South Holderness in Yorkshire have been ended by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s withdrawal from a group, less than a month after its formation was announced.
The South Holderness Working Group’s formation in January 2024 signalled the start of discussions about…
EDF Energy has extended the outages of the two nuclear reactors at Heysham 1 and two at Hartlepool to conduct steam valve inspections.
The energy company has updated the status of the four reactors under the shutdown category as non-planned. Heysham 1’s first reactor is said to be “shut down to…
Ministers from the Scottish National Party (SNP) have slammed the UK government’s infrastructure procurement, saying there is “£100bn overspend in infrastructure projects without even digging too deeply”.
SNP MP for Kilmarnock and Loudon Alan Brown brought the matter of infrastructure procurement to a House of Commons chamber adjournment debate on 19…
The UK will not realise its offshore wind ambitions without rapidly expanding the port infrastructure. We need to think differently to seize this unprecedented opportunity.
Whilst the UK has an established offshore wind sector, the continued expansion of this green energy source still presents a major opportunity: not just as…
A think tank is urging the government to review its current defence measures for undersea cables, which other nations are considering “critical” assets and infrastructure.
Policy Exchange, an influential policy think tank, has authored the report From Space to Seabed: Protecting the UK’s undersea cables from hostile actors which states that as…
Revised plans to protect fish from water intake tubes for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant on the Severn Estuary have come under fresh criticism from environmental organisations.
EDF recenrly proposed plans to create a saltmarsh at the Somerset nuclear plant site as an alternative to an acoustic fish deterrent.…
A £1.5bn carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project on Teesside has been granted development consent.
The application from Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and Net Zero North Sea Storage (NZNS Storage) made on 19 July 2021, includes a “full chain” CCUS facility. The project will comprise of a carbon…
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