North Yorkshire Council assistant director of planning on community development services Trevor Watson has recommended the council to approve a planning application from power generator Drax for a converter station and its associated infrastructure to support a planned £2.1bn electricity “superhighway”.
The council’s strategic planning committee will preside over the application…
The government and leaders from the energy sector have outlined plans to invest over £100bn in the UK’s energy sector in the next decade across renewables, oil, gas, nuclear and new technologies.
Energy security secretary Grant Shapps welcomed representatives of companies including EDF, SSE, Shell and BP to Downing Street earlier…
Balfour Beatty has completed the installation of all 116 T-pylons for the Hinkley Connection Project to power homes in the south west of England with nuclear energy.
Considered a “world first”, the T-structures were first designed by Danish firm Bystrup, which won an international competition organised by the Royal Institute of…
The final section of the subsea cable of the Viking Link electricity interconnector, a high-voltage direct current link between UK and Denmark, has been laid in the North Sea, establishing a connection between the countries’ grids for the first time.
The €2bn (£1.7bn) Viking Link project is a joint venture between…
The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned there are 1,150 green energy projects in the UK that have received planning permission but cannot yet be built due to concerns around connecting to the grid.
LGA asserts that the inability to build these clean energy projects is putting the UK’s net zero…
As the Local Government Association reveals that there are over 1,000 renewable projects unable to go into construction due to lack of grid connections, it's worth exploring the issues facing cable operators seeking to connect renewable energy projects to the UK grid.
The UK's plan to get to net zero…
In the month in which we celebrated International Women in Engineering Day, several female appointments were made in senior roles around the sector.
A round up of the biggest moves and appointments during June follows below. To feature on next month’s appointments roundup email robert.hakimian@emap.com. Andy Lord takes on TfL role…
Plans for 180km of new electricity network infrastructure have been updated as National Grid sets out another round of consultation for its project to connect the counties to new offshore wind generation.
This latest public consultation follows initial round last year and includes updated detail on the potential location of infrastructure…
National Grid has released proposals for a 90km power line to transport 6GW of electrical power from windfarms in the North Sea to the Midlands.
The project forms part of The Great Grid Upgrade, the largest overhaul of the grid in generations, with new infrastructure across England and Wales helping the…
Arcadis has been appointed to National Grid’s new Global Management Consultancy Framework in helping the energy company transition to a decarbonised network and reach net zero.
The partnership will begin imminently and will see Arcadis provide of consulting services across National Grid’s UK and US businesses. Electricity networks will be vital…
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