At the end of July, government announced the price list for statutory biodiversity credits and they are pretty eyewatering – but what lies behind this and what are the implications?
The time taken to build clean electricity transmission infrastructure in the UK is between 12 and 14 years but now an independent commissioner has called on the government to take action to halve that.
The government and leaders from the energy sector have outlined plans to invest over £100bn in the UK’s energy sector in the next decade across renewables, oil, gas, nuclear and new technologies.
Balfour Beatty has completed the installation of all 116 T-pylons for the Hinkley Connection Project to power homes in the south west of England with nuclear energy.
Sellafield has launched the tender process for up to £4.6bn of decommissioning works at the nuclear site in Cumbria.
Excavation work has resumed at Snowy 2.0 in New South Wales, Australia, with two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) back in action to complete key tailrace and headrace tunnels.
Renewable energy company Drax Group has been granted planning permission by the Scottish Government for a new £500M underground pumped storage hydro plant at its Cruachan facility in Argyll.
Yorkshire Water has signed a 15-year agreement to use the biomethane produced as a by-product of its sewage treatment processes to produce gas power for the UK.
The government has confirmed an additional £170M will be invested into the Sizewell C nuclear plant to speed up preparations to enable construction to start.
The government has delayed the release of its review into planning hurdles for onshore wind projects in the UK.
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