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The government has announced the immediate lifting of the de facto ban on onshore wind development in England, among other actions to speed up planning decisions.

A powerful family dynasty of business people, the Madhvanis, are working with GE (General Electric) to bring small modular reactors (SMRs) to the UK, according to a report in the Telegraph.

World-first research into why there is sometimes more noise generated by overhead power lines in lower rain conditions has been carried out by SSEN Transmission.

The Labour Party is now the governing party of the UK following its landslide victory in the General Election and the civil engineering sector has uniformly said it is standing by to support its ambitions.

Nuclear fusion technology has been touted to provide a “limitless” supply of energy, but there are many challenges to it being utilised on a global, or even national, scale.

Government work to justify classifying nuclear energy generation as “environmentally sustainable” cannot be produced as it is incomplete, despite ex-chancellor Jeremy Hunt making the announcement in the 2023 Spring Budget, NCE can reveal.

Hinkley Point C has said it is building the second unit of the nuclear power station 20-30% faster than the first thanks to learning more efficient construction methods.

Failure to deliver more long-duration energy storage is the “ignored crisis within the energy crisis” and guidance has been released to bring more pumped storage hydropower projects to fruition to combat this.

The first stage of the decommissioning of European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC’s) grid-connected test tidal turbine in Orkney has been completed by Ocean Kinetics and Green Marine (UK) joint venture.

Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks has put out a call for contractors interested in submitting bids for a £222.8M framework for work on overhead transmission lines.