28 boreholes will be drilled to a depth of 225m to access geothermal energy and enable the British Geological Survey (BGS) to decarbonise its headquarters campus in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire.
BGS said the project will save 30 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent each year and would reduce the organisation’s heating bill. The…
The government has committed £1bn for the next round of the renewable energy Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction.
This funding has been put forward in 2011-2012 prices, in line with what has been published in the Spring Budget but in today’s prices, based on CPI inflation, is worth close to £1.4bn.…
We have a fascinating nuclear history in the UK; Nuclear physicists John Cockroft and Ernest Newton (working under Ernest Rutherford) split the atom in 1932 at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, and kickstarted the UK’s journey to pioneer the use of radioactive materials and develop a whole new industry for the…
What the chancellor of the exchequer chooses to talk about in his budget statement says something about priorities. Just as important is what he chooses not to talk about.
Words that went unuttered by the Jeremy Hunt as he spoke for more than an hour in Parliament included: Construction Roads or…
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised investments in advancing the UK's net zero efforts with nuclear and green energy in today's Spring Budget but future funding for transport and other vital infrastructure went amiss.
While the industry is pleased to hear investment is being made in aiding the decarbonisation of the UK’s grid…
The Spring Budget 2024 has backed plans for nuclear energy progress and confirmed funding for decarbonisation investments through the Green Industries Growth Accelerator (Giga).
Nuclear energy A new £160M deal with Hitachi to acquire two sites, the former Wylfa nuclear site in north Wales and the Oldbury site in south Gloucestershire,…
Holtec has signed new memoranda of understanding with Balfour Beatty and Mott MacDonald, as well as South Korean Hyundai’s construction department to collaborate on advancing small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology.
The partnership will take the delivery of international nuclear giant Holtec’s SMR technology, SMR-300, a step forward after it was…
Chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt will announce a further £120M government investment increase for the Green Industries Growth Accelerator (Giga) fund in the Spring Budget tomorrow, Wednesday, 6 March.
Giga is an investment programme for the expansion of low carbon manufacturing supply chains in the UK. The government has also…
Ofgem has recommended two proposals for high voltage cables connecting the UK grid to electricity sources in Europe for approval.
The Lion Link, a so-called offshore hybrid asset (OHA) to connect the UK with the Netherlands’ power grid and Dutch wind farms in the North Sea, and Tarchon Energy interconnector, which would…
The government has been warned not to carry over the surplus of greenhouse gas emissions reductions from the third carbon budget.
In its formally mandated advice to government due to the surplus of emissions savings accrued during the 2018-2022 carbon budget, the Climate Change Committee has said that an “ambitious path”…
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