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It's official: some international offshore wind developers may be ready to pull the plug on their projects in the UK.

Grappling with rising costs, as well as concerns about the risks posed by the current investment climate and its impacts on the country’s energy security, Swedish energy giant Vattenfall recently made…

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.

Marking a key moment in the government’s long-term ambition for nuclear power, secretary of state…

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).

Part of a larger funding package worth £53M in conjunction with the Energy & Minerals Group and TechMet, the financing will help support Cornish Lithium in…

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.

The Norwich to Tilbury project will reinforce the grid between these two locations with 183km of new connections made up mainly of new pylons…

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.

The programme, known as Pathway to 2030, is an interconnected set of major projects in the north of Scotland that will…

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”.

The council’s strategic planning committee will preside over the application…

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?

From November this year – the precise date is still to be announced – or spring next year for smaller projects,…

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.

Electricity networks commissioner Nick Winser was tasked by the government to assess how deployment of green energy…

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.

Energy security secretary Grant Shapps welcomed representatives of companies including EDF, SSE, Shell and BP to Downing Street earlier…

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.

Considered a “world first”, the T-structures were first designed by Danish firm Bystrup, which won an international competition organised by the Royal Institute of…