It is almost 25 years since the Blyth offshore wind farm was commissioned, marking the beginning of UK offshore wind energy generation. Since then, capacity has grown exponentially, with UK becoming the second largest offshore wind energy producer in the world. According to the Crown Estate’s 2023 UK Offshore Wind…
More than 328km of 66kv inter-array cables have been installed by delivery partners for SSE Renewables’ Dogger Bank A, the first phase of the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
The government has announced the new public, clean energy organisation Great British Energy will partner with the Crown Estate to build more offshore wind farms and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS).
A consortium of Gilkes Energy and SSE Renewables has announced plans to progress a new 1.8GW capacity pumped storage hydro scheme at Loch Fearna in Scotland’s Great Glen.
A consortium of Dragados Offshore (a subsidiary of Vinci’s Cobra IS) and Siemens Energy has won a €2.9bn (£2.44bn) contract to design, build and install two electrical conversion platforms in the North Sea.
National Grid has awarded Morgan Sindall Infrastructure the Necton overhead line contract to build transmission infrastructure in support of windfarms off the Norfolk coast.
Sir Robert McAlpine has been selected to build a £4bn electric vehicle battery factory in Somerset.
A planned subsea electricity interconnector between the UK and Belgium has reverted to its original connection point in Suffolk after Ofgem had recommended to reject the project’s application, but this has displeased the local authority.
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) has submitted the UK’s first-ever application for a justification decision for Rolls-Royce SMR’s small modular reactor (SMR) design.
A judicial review of the decision to grant development consent order (DCO) to a new gas-fired power station on Teesside is to be heard in High Court this week on 22 and 23 July.
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