Tag Archives: Energy

The Planning Inspectorate has launched a trial to test potential components of an enhanced pre-application service for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).

The Planning Act 2008 introduced a new bespoke consenting route for major infrastructure projects in the fields of energy, transport, water, waste and wastewater. Between its introduction in 2010…

Significant milestones have been achieved on the Hinkley Point C project over the past six months, with offshore works having reached the final stage.

The first new nuclear reactor vessel for a UK power station for more than 30 years arrived in February on the Somerset construction site of the…

Is there a proven way to store surplus energy? NCE reports on the potential of pumped storage hydroelectricity in the UK and looks into the proposed Coire Glas scheme.

As the world slowly moves away from fossil fuelled electricity generation and towards renewable alternatives, a major roadblock still has to be…

As the government strives to expand capacity to meet future electricity demand, nuclear power and tidal energy are at the opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of support.

New sources of electricity generation must be built and brought online in the next decade if the government is to achieve…

Algeco temporary buildings use smart technology to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.

Building contractors are always seeking new ways to lower energy consumption from temporary site buildings and permanent structures. Integrating smart technology into their site accommodation is a highly effective and relatively low cost way to achieve this.…

Building small modular nuclear reactors within pop up factories could make the construction of nuclear power capacity faster.

During his Spring Budget statement, chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that nuclear is a “critical source of cheap and reliable energy” that could help the UK meet its net zero obligations. The high cost…

As a student studying geotechnics, I used to joke about needing to attach things to magic “sky hooks” in order to solve some slope stability challenges or to undertake the temporary works stages of schemes I had been tasked to design. No help in that form was coming though, so…

The future of the £165M Woodhouse Colliery coal mine in Cumbria is in doubt after amendments were tabled to the Energy Bill in the House of Lords to outlaw coal mines in England.

Changes to the Energy Bill were voted through by The House of Lords on a wafer-thin margin of…

The government risks not meeting its ambition to decarbonise power by 2035 because it lacks a delivery plan, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

The government has set an ambition that, by 2035, all electricity should be generated using clean sources, subject to maintaining security of supply, phasing out gas-fired…

Thomas Johnson’s article (NCE, online 12 January) quotes Nick Smallwood as saying that High Speed 2 (HS2) was not well developed, scoped, prepared and planned. He misses the main factor which turned the public against it – the inadequate marketing and selling of the project to the public and the…