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SSE Renewables has successfully completed a £50M refurbishment of Tummel Bridge power station in Perthshire, Scotland, increasing its lifespan by 40 years.

Holtec Britain has chosen South Yorkshire as the home of its planned £1.5bn small modular reactor (SMR) factory, subject to a final investment decision (FID).

Plans for three small modular reactors (SMRs) have been announced by software giant Oracle as part of its proposals to build an artificial intelligence (AI) focused data centre.

Delays to grid connections are a significant drag on the UK’s infrastructure ambitions, impacting new clean energy schemes and high energy users such as battery gigafactories and data centres. However, there are significant threats to progress in this sphere, not least the question of land rights.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has achieved a world-first by using a fully autonomous robot to inspect the inside of a fusion energy facility. 

The Met Office has detailed solutions it is employing to collaborate with UK firms involved in the energy transition and decarbonisation of the grid. 

A team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials have observed an emergency exercise by the Russian authorities at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP).

The formal planning process for the River Mersey tidal Scheme has begun with the submission of a scoping report to the Planning Inspectorate. 

The planned Centre Port scheme, which comprises a 18km tidal barrage across The Wash in East Anglia, along with the world’s first tidal-powered deep-sea container terminal, is edging forward.