US nuclear energy venture Westinghouse Electric Company has joined forces with Cumbria based venture Community Nuclear Power (CNP) to deploy four Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in North Teesside.
The agreement announced 8 February “marks a first step in the private delivery of advanced, proven SMR technology to the UK,” Westinghouse said…
A report compiled by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) details the plethora of reasons infrastructure projects in the UK are often delayed and overbudget, including the clarity of communication between public sector clients and the contractors.
Within the report, released this week, BCG presents its studies of massive UK projects such…
A team of researchers at the University of Leeds has started to test the potential to use geothermal energy to heat buildings on campus in a bid to tackle its carbon emissions.
As reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the project involves drilling eight test boreholes into the ground at…
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an improvement notice on EDF Energy after an employee was injured in an incident at Dungeness B power station.
An employee suffered an electric shock from a portable heater while undertaking maintenance work at the Kent site on 5 November 2023, suffering injuries…
Engineers have said the revelation that global temperatures breached the 1.5°C global warming barrier must be a “clarion call that resilience has got to rise far higher up the global agenda”, otherwise the world is heading towards a “different evolutionary trajectory”.
The Paris Agreement of 2015 committed the world to try…
The government’s electricity networks commissioner believes Ofgem should start incentivising power generation projects to get through the planning stage “efficiently and effectively”.
Nick Winser’s comments were made in a Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) inquiry session on Wednesday 7 February studying the government’s response to the commissioner’s report…
HS2 Ltd has signalled its intention to procure a £760M contract for the provision of zero carbon energy along the entire High Speed 2 (HS2) route.
The contract will encompass everything from trial operations to dynamic testing stages to full operation. HS2 Ltd’s periodic indicative notice has been released to inform…
A new £11.5M grid substation is being installed next to an existing one near Heathfield in East Sussex and UK Power Networks (UKPN) has built an “enriched dormice habitat” to mitigate the impact of the development.
Two new 60MW, 60t transformers have been delivered to the site and once energised, will…
National Grid is transporting two 178t supergrid transformers from Tilbury Docks to its new Biggleswade substation near Dunton.
The new substation is a new connection for UK Power Networks and will increase power capacity at Biggleswade, helping the community mover towards a low carbon economy. Each transformer will make the 111km…
The UK has become the first “major” economy to halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2022, new official statistics show.
The 50% reduction in emissions has come while the economy has grown by 79%, the government says. According to the government, the reductions are largely due to cutting emissions…
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