The government has launched a consultation about implementing the "Action Plan", which it issued in February, to make improvements to the nationally significant infrastructure planning regime.
The £10bn decommissioning work taking place at Sellafield has passed a milestone as engineers have begun to scoop out waste from the UK’s oldest nuclear waste storage building.
Changes to Hinkley Point C’s water discharge activity have been approved by the Environment Agency but campaigners argue that these will impact the fish population.
Ofgem has agreed to allow National Grid to implement an amnesty for up to 50 energy transmission developments that are contributing to a logjam for new, renewable projects trying to connect to the grid.
It's official: some international offshore wind developers may be ready to pull the plug on their projects in the UK.
The recent launch of Great British Nuclear has thrust nuclear power into the spotlight once more, potentially opening the door to a surge of investment into the sector and the UK’s wider renewable energy infrastructure.
A company developing a lithium extraction plant in Cornwall for energy storage projects has received a £24M equity investment from the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB).
Suffolk County Council has taken a stand against National Grid’s £895M Norwich to Tilbury electricity connection project, saying that an offshore solution needs to be investigated further.
SSEN Transmission has named Balfour Beatty, Siemens-Bam JV and J. Murphy and Sons among its preferred bidders to deliver critical onshore transmission infrastructure across its £10bn electricity transmission network plan.
North Yorkshire Council assistant director of planning on community development services Trevor Watson has recommended the council to approve a planning application from power generator Drax for a converter station and its associated infrastructure to support a planned £2.1bn electricity “superhighway”.
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