Danish investment firm Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has launched a venture to drive the global energy island market, starting with an initial portfolio of 10 international schemes.
CIP specialises in infrastructure investments, particularly wind power, and was part of the consortium that launched VindØ in 2020, claimed to be the world’s…
The government has pledged a further £1.3bn of funding to Sizewell C to support improvements to roads and rail lines in preparation for full construction.
This brings the government’s investment in the nuclear station to £2.5bn, following £371M committed in August 2023, £170M in July 2023 and £700M in autumn 2022.…
The government has pledged a fresh £185M fund to help decarbonise industrial clusters around the UK while announcing winners of its £6M local industrial decarbonisation competition.
The Industrial Energy Transformation Fund will open this month. This fund will help companies transform their operations to run on cleaner, more secure energy –…
With Hinkley Point C having recently celebrated the placement of the 245t dome on top of its first reactor building, experts from the industry explain what makes the steel nuclear grade.
The dome, along with the rest of the steel case which envelopes the Hinkley Point C reactor, was prefabricated in…
Thames Water has announced sewage sludge will be used to heat homes in West London early this year after successfully delivering its second gas-to-grid project at its Mogden sewage treatment works.
A byproduct of the sewage treatment process is sewage sludge, which is then digested to produce biogas. Mogden sewage treatment…
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served enforcement notices to four companies at the Hinkley Point C construction site for shortfalls in fire safety.
The four companies include Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke who form the Bylor JV, the main civil contractor on the Somerset nuclear power station. Notices…
A development consent order (DCO) has been granted for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Beccs) to be implemented at Drax Power Station in Yorkshire.
Secretary of state for energy security and net zero Claire Coutinho approved the DCO, which will see Drax convert two biomass units at Drax Power Station…
French gas utility operator GRDF is installing the world’s first “sustainable” gas pipeline using bio-based high-density polyethylene (HDPE) from chemical manufacturer Ineos.
The low-carbon pipeline is being installed in Clermont-Ferrand, France as part of a programme to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. Ineos said the HDPE is made from wood-based polymer.…
The triggering of Sizewell C’s development consent order (DCO) means the UK’s nuclear workforce will have thousands of new skills, training and job opportunities.
It is hoped that this will enable the creation of the qualified labour base needed to deliver the 24GW of nuclear power target set by the government…
We must integrate efforts in energy transition, green infrastructure and retrofit for data centres to adapt to the new wave of artificial intelligence (AI).
The advent of data generation and consumption was always going to require solutions that go beyond traditional delivery and thinking. Engineers and infrastructure consultants have been…
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