Chancellor Rachel Reeves made the first Labour budget announcements for 14 years today, Wednesday, 30 October, dedicating a lot of funds to infrastructure projects that were uncertain. Below, we collect the reaction from stakeholders across the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors.
An additional £2.7bn of taxpayer cash has been awarded by the government to Sizewell C new nuclear power station in Suffolk to try and secure the critical final investment decision (FID).
Great British Nuclear (GBN) has revealed its commercial pipeline has £890M-£1.1bn worth of work up for grabs and implied its small modular reactor (SMR) competition plans to appoint two suppliers.
The potential development of an advanced modular reactor (AMR) on the site of the Bacton Gas Terminal in North Norfolk has been opposed by the local MP.
Recommendations for speeding up consenting of nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) by dealing swiftly with legal challenges have been delivered by the government-appointed independent review.
A nuclear energy startup Deep Atomic has revealed plans for a compact small modular reactor (SMR) specifically aimed at powering data centres.
Six cities in England are poised to transform their heating systems through the establishment of the nation’s pioneering heat network zones.
The UK’s ‘blackout prevention system’ was activated around midday on 14 October, but how close was the UK to actually cutting off power to parts of its electricity grid?
The UK, Scottish, and Welsh governments have commissioned the National Energy System Operator (NESO) with drawing up a strategic plan to establish new energy infrastructure locations.
Direct current (DC) microgrids are essential to managing the surge in electricity demand that will come with developments like the transition of heat and transport networks from fossil fuels, experts from Jacobs and Current/OS have told NCE.
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