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The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an improvement notice on EDF Energy after an employee was injured in an incident at Dungeness B power station.

Engineers have said the revelation that global temperatures breached the 1.5°C global warming barrier must be a “clarion call that resilience has got to rise far higher up the global agenda”, otherwise the world is heading towards a “different evolutionary trajectory”.

The government’s electricity networks commissioner believes Ofgem should start incentivising power generation projects to get through the planning stage “efficiently and effectively”.

HS2 Ltd has signalled its intention to procure a £760M contract for the provision of zero carbon energy along the entire High Speed 2 (HS2) route.

A new £11.5M grid substation is being installed next to an existing one near Heathfield in East Sussex and UK Power Networks (UKPN) has built an “enriched dormice habitat” to mitigate the impact of the development.

National Grid is transporting two 178t supergrid transformers from Tilbury Docks to its new Biggleswade substation near Dunton.

The UK has become the first “major” economy to halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2022, new official statistics show.

Behaviour change can unlock long-lasting social, economic and environmental benefits and is a critical component of the transition to net zero, according to a new policy paper from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure (APPGI).

The chief executive of Octopus Energy has said the company plans to invest billions of pounds in building energy infrastructure abroad becuase the wait time to get generation projects connected to the UK grid is too long.

National Grid has submitted planning applications to build a new power tunnel under the Thames, replacing the 1960s Thames Cable Tunnel, as part of its plans to upgrade electricity infrastructure between Kent and Essex.