Latest Energy News

United Utilities is using innovative technology, updated designs and modular thinking for its floating solar panel array in the North West.

The developer behind a proposed gas-fuelled power station in Lincolnshire has submitted its final plans to the Planning Inspectorate.

The UK Planning Inspectorate has given permission for a 1,700MW gas-turbine plant at the 800ha Wilton site in Teeside.  

Three projects to connect UK and French power networks have been left in limbo as French energy regulator CRE awaits the outcome of the Brexit process.

Output from nuclear power stations fell 7% in 2018, while renewable energy continued to go from strength to strength, according to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics 

Thermodynamic engineers at The National Centre for aerospace, energy and transportation research (DLR) in Colonge, Germany have suggested replacing coal power plants with giant ‘carnot batteries’ to store energy from renewable generators.  

Trade body Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) has estimated that £200bn is needed to improve ageing North Sea oil and gas infrastructure over the coming 16 years. 

A cross party group of MPs has uged the government to back a £176M oil and gas sector deal.  

Cracks in the graphite reactor blocks at Hunterston B might not pose a safety risk, but they do highlight the age of the UK’s fleet of nuclear reactors, and the worrying lack of projects in the pipeline to bolster the sector.  

The UK’s energy market has been a tale of two sectors since the turn of the year.