Stantec has been selected to design Tata's proposed £4bn electric car battery factory in Somerset.
Stantec has been appointed to the contract to provide integrated design services for Agratas, Tata Group’s global battery business, which is building a battery cell manufacturing facility on the Gravity Smart Campus south of Bristol, near…
Bam-Hitachi Energy joint venture has been appointed by National Grid Energy Transmission (NGET) and SSEN Transmission to build the converter stations for the £2.1bn Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) offshore interconnector between Scotland and England.
EGL2 is an “electricity superhighway” connecting Peterhead in Scotland with Drax in England with 525kV, 2GW…
Balfour Beatty has commenced work with SSEN Transmission on the development of nine electricity transmission projects across the north of Scotland.
The work forms part of SSEN Transmission’s £10bn Pathway to 2030 network redevelopment programme. Balfour Beatty was appointed to the project in August 2023 alongside Siemens-Bam JV, Murphy and others.…
Overhead power lines will remain as the standard method for transmission of electricity, despite calls for more undergrounding, the government has confirmed.
Discussion about the electricity transmission network has moved up the agenda over recent years because of the role that electrification is already playing in the UK’s attempts to decarbonise…
Mott MacDonald has been appointed by National Grid to provide front end engineering design (Feed) and technical support for the Eastern Green Link (EGL) 3 and 4 interconnector projects.
National Grid is developing the EGL 3 and EGL4 projects to connect the numerous new offshore wind farms that are being developed…
The local community in West Burton, Nottinghamshire, has been invited learn and provide feedback about the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) nuclear fusion project being developed next to the village's old coal fire power stations.
A spherical tokamak is a type of proposed fusion reactor which proponents hope could lead…
The UK could suffer an energy “crunch point” in 2028 where demand for electricity could exceed the grid’s capacity by 7.5GW at peak times, a new report has warned.
Public First’s report, commissioned by Drax, Mind the Gap: Exploring Britain’s Energy Crunch, has calculated that electricity demand in 2028 will be…
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has fully decommissioned the Imperial College Reactor Centre (ICRC) , making it the first reactor site to be fully retired in UK nuclear history under modern regulatory controls.
The site was delicensed by the ONR following many years of work to defuel and then decommission…
National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chair John Armitt has penned a letter to government urging it speed up development of policy that will encourage private sector investment in energy infrastructure.
In his letter to the chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt and the secretary of state for energy security and net zero…
A new purpose-built factory manufacturing high voltage cables will be built at a 15ha site near the Port of Nigg on Easter Ross in Scotland.
Sumitomo Electric UK Power Cables Ltd (SEUK), a subsidiary of Japanese company Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) is behind the facility and hopes to supply cables…
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