A 70ha, 49.72MW solar farm proposed by Anesco at Milton Road near Gayton in Northamptonshire has been denied planning permission by the Communities Secretary.
A decision letter published on 13 March by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities laid out the Secretary of State’s decision in respect of the…
New cable circuits, re-routing of overhead power lines and the installation of new towers have been completed by UK Power Networks (UKPN) in a project which centred around the substation at Little Barford in Bedfordshire.
The project started in 2018 and involved upgrading grid capacity and reliability for 190,000 properties in…
Small modular reactors (SMRs) and floating offshore wind will only be successfully deployed at scale in the UK if the government supports the creation of sustainable supply chains through policy stability and long-term investment windows.
Representatives of Associated British Ports (ABP), Rolls-Royce SMR and Siemens Energy spoke about the challenges they…
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has criticised the government’s Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) stating it falls short of the adequate response that is needed against climate change.
Published in July 2023, NAP3 is the government’s statutory plan to ensure the country is prepared for the effects of climate change. The…
Construction of a replacement overhead transmission between the Harris grid supply point and Stornoway grid supply point is expected to start in the summer of 2024 and finish in 2026.
Consent was granted to SSEN Transmission for the project by the Scottish Government which SSEN said would bolder energy security on…
Powerlines needed to drive the UK’s transition to net zero carbon will have to be built in unpopular places, but the government hopes it can minimise the disruption, a minister has said.
Jerome Mayhew, MP for Broadland in Norfolk, is a campaigner against a new pylon route through his county to…
The UK had 13.9GW of offshore wind capacity in 2022 and 10GW of projects are under construction, but National Grid, the electricity system operator, estimates that over 100GW could be required to reach net zero by 2050. Installing more offshore wind turbines to meet this capacity is only part of…
New gas power stations will be built if government plans under the second consultation on the review of electricity market arrangements (REMA) are successful, as a back-up for intermittent renewables like wind and solar.
In an announcement from the Prime Minister and Energy Secretary, the government said it was committed to…
National Grid has chosen key sites for a major new power line under the North Sea. The energy distribution body announced the landfall, cable route and convertor station locations for the proposed LionLink connection to the Netherlands. Ministers revealed plans last year to create the world's largest multi-point power line…
Proposals for the world’s largest tidal scheme, planned to be built on the River Mersey, have been unveiled.
Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram has announced the progression of the scheme with the formal planning process for the UK’s “first of a kind” Mersey Tidal Power set to begin. Rotheram has…
New Civil Engineer Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer