Sellafield has launched the tender process for up to £4.6bn of decommissioning works at the nuclear site in Cumbria.
The plant is looking for up to five partners for the works, which are spread across four Lots and include remediation, decommissioning and demolition works. The contract would last for 15 years…
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.
In late July, TBM Lady Eileen Hudson began work on the 6km tailrace tunnel to connect Talbingo Reservoir to the underground power station complex.…
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.
The 600MW capacity plant will be constructed adjacent to the existing underground facility and more than double to the site’s existing generation…
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.
Biogas is produced as a by-product of Yorkshire Water’s sewage wastewater treatment processes and can be upgraded to separate methane from the other component…
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.
Sizewell C is an in-development 3.26GW capacity nuclear plant on the Suffolk coast that is projected to cost £20bn and take between 13 and 17 years…
The government has delayed the release of its review into planning hurdles for onshore wind projects in the UK.
Currently, the regulations around onshore wind projects have seen them become almost impossible to consent as they are decided at local level. To be considered for approval, onshore wind projects must be…
SMRs The launch of GBN saw the opening of registration for companies to participate in a competition to secure funding support to develop their products. This is mainly focused around developing small modular reactors (SMRs) in the UK. As the government explains: “Unlike conventional reactors that are built on site,…
Sweden headquartered energy multi-national Vattenfall has halted the development of its Norfolk Boreas Offshore Wind Farm, citing a 40% increase in offshore wind costs.
The windfarm is intended to be part of one of the UK’s most ambitious renewable energy projects, but Vattenfall says market changes have altered its capex and…
A consortium including WSP and Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the Welsh Government to provide environmental assessments for a number of renewable energy projects on public land.
The Renewable Energy Developer (RED) programme has contracted WSP, Mott MacDonald, LUC, Temple, Dulas, JCTR and Axis to help with the development of…
The UK government has published its third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) which sets out its strategic five-year plan to boost resilience against climate change risks, which includes several measures to boost resilience of infrastructure assets.
The 2008 Climate Change Act requires the government to complete a Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)…
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