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The Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy is facing a legal challenge over its main financial mechanism for supporting low-carbon electricity generation. Banks Renewables, part of northeast property and energy business The Banks Group, has lodged a legal challenge with the High Court calling for a judicial review of…

Three councils in Aberdeenshire have given the green light for the construction of a major £156M energy-from-waste (EfW) plant project, following a year of setbacks and delays. The contract to construct the plant in the East Tullos area of Aberdeen by 2022 has now been signed off by councils after…

An invitation to tender (ITT) been issued for infrastructure works for the first of three new interconnector links that are expected to be laid between the UK and France. Gridlink has issued an ITT for a 1,400 MW high voltage direct current (HVDC) link between Kingsnorth on the Isle of…

The number of new onshore wind farms in England could soar as Conservative party leaders face calls from voters for restrictions on their development to be eased.

Business lobby group the CBI has called for more new nuclear power stations to be built, so that the UK can reach net-zero carbon targets.

The roll out of hydrogen energy storage could see the UK “meet low-carbon targets with 10GW less nuclear capacity” an energy heavyweight has claimed.  

The push to develop more marine energy capacity has gained a second wind with flagship tidal energy projects on the horizon in England and Wales, while Scotland is a hotbed of turbine innovation.

Hundreds of engineers and plant staff at the Drax biomass energy plant in Yorkshire are threatening strike action.

North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is to hold a second market information day as it seeks contractors for its £500M North London Heat and Power Project (NLHPP).

Norwegian multinational energy firm Equinor has been given permission to construct the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, off the coast of the Canary Islands.