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The government has appointed the UK's first-ever offshore wind champion to accelerate floating wind innovations.

A new small nuclear power station is being planned at Trawsfynydd in Snowdonia, prime minister Boris Johnson has confirmed in a speech to the Welsh Conservative party conference in Newtown.

After months of speculation, EDF has finally confirmed that there will be a year-long delay and £3bn cost increase to its Hinkley Point C nuclear project.

An underwater drone has been deployed for the first-ever inspection of a wind farm’s foundations.

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) and EDF must together “double-check whether it would be technically feasible, safe and cost-effective to extend the lives of any of the remaining operating [nuclear] stations” to ensure energy security and ease energy price rises, according to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.

EDF has announced that the start date for the Unit 1 reactor at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset will be pushed back a year to June 2027, with the project also facing a £3bn cost increase.

Four EU countries have committed to building at least one additional energy island as part of their vision for the North Sea to become a “Green Power Plant”.

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is testing a system featuring autonomous drones and artificial intelligence (AI) that could fully automate the inspection of steel lattice pylons.

Jacobs is creating 600 new jobs related to energy transition, in response to the UK and Irish government’s plans to reduce fossil fuel dependency and decarbonise their economies.

SSE Renewables has opened a public consultation for its proposed €2.5bn (£2.13bn) windfarm in the Irish Sea.