Google has unveiled an agreement to purchase nuclear energy from small modular reactors (SMRs) being developed by Kairos Power to power its artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Rotors at Sizewell B are being replaced at a cost of £12M during the nuclear plant’s regular shutdown period for refuelling and inspection.
A total of £9.7M in funding has been awarded to projects under the latest round of Ofgem and Innovate UK’s strategic innovation fund (SIF), with National Grid and SSEN leading six of the initiatives.
SSEN’s £7.7M scheme to make underground electricity infrastructure in Portsmouth more resilient has reached a milestone with the conclusion of the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) portion of works.
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has analysed why the UK has a decades-long record of overspending on major infrastructure and identified ways to cut 10-25% of outturn cost.
The government has announced it has leveraged £24bn of private finance in its first 100 days for clean energy projects in the UK.
A £78M loss has been posted for the 2023 financial year by Rolls-Royce SMR, which it said was “largely due to research and development expenditure”.
HM Treasury has confirmed that its 10-year infrastructure strategy and new body combining the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) will launch in spring 2025.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has announced a long duration energy storage (LDES) cap and floor investment scheme to help bring forward more energy storage schemes.
A group of 65 climate groups and trade unions have unified in a call for the government to provide £1.9bn to help offshore oil and gas workers to move to renewable energy work.
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