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A new low-head river hydroelectric power plant has opened in Yorkshire today.

Wales is set to get the UK’s first grid-scale energy storage project for more than 30 years after planning permission was granted for a 99MW pumped storage hydro (PSH) scheme, the first onshore hydro scheme to go through the fast-track Planning Act 2008.

Ensuring infrastructure is ready for advances in technology which will change the way we live is crucial to planning, experts have warned.

The ICE is launching a programme of events to celebrate its 200th anniversary next year.

New Civil Engineer March 2017 is devoted to the UK’s planned £500bn investment in infrastructure. In the sectoral overview I looked in vain for “water”, finding only a mention of it in “utilities”. It isn’t only New Civil Engineer that can see no further than drinking water as the nation’s only…

Eurotunnel subsidiary ElecLink has awarded a joint venture between Balfour Beatty and cable manufacturer Prysmian Group the £185M contract to install a 65km high voltage direct current interconnector in the Channel Tunnel.

Consultant Mott MacDonald is to advise on two newly proposed tidal power schemes in the North West.

EDF Energy has appointed WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff as engineering consultant for its UK fleet of wind farms, gas storage sites, coal and gas power stations.

Pressure has mounted on the government to take decisive action on the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon after 107 MPs called for it get the go-ahead.

Mott MacDonald has acquired energy consultant Wideurope Engineering.