Europe’s largest ever battery storage facility has commenced operating in Northern Scotland, The Times has reported. The site’s location, midway between Inverness and Aberdeen, was carefully selected by Zenobe to take full advantage of an area where huge amounts of wind power are fed into the National Grid from offshore wind farms. The project already […]
STEP forward for Nuclear Fusion Sector as Government invests £410 million
Construction News has reported that construction companies are currently competing to work on a new nuclear plant, to be known as the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) facility. The companies bidding include Balfour, Kier and Ferrovial and the new job could be worth up to £20bn, according to UK Industrial Fusion Solutions (UKIFS). For […]
Sizewell C projected to start up in 2035, Times reports
The Times Newspaper has revealed that the much anticipated Sizewell C nuclear power plant is due to commence operating in 2035, if approved, although concerns are still being voiced about progress on Hinckley Point C. Despite a projected start date of late 2025, construction works on Hinckley Point C have been subject to costly delays, […]
A new era of clean electricity is promised. Speed is of the essence in the Government’s new Clean Power 2030 Action Plan.
An encouraging read for our energy and housebuilder clients. With only six years to implement, this is a call to action across the industry. Delivery will require fundamental changes to the planning system and new connections process. Click on the link to read all about it: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-power-2030-action-plan-assessment-of-the-clean-energy-skills-challenge
Today marks the end of the UK’s coal burning era – but is the National Grid prepared for it?
The last coal power station in the country will close down today at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, marking the end of the UK’s 142 year reliance on coal as a fossil fuel. Given that coal is regarded as the dirtiest fossil fuel, producing the highest amount of greenhouse gases when burnt, the power plant’s demise marks a major […]
China launches world’s largest solar farm
The Xinjiang solar farm in China, which went online last month, has taken first place as the largest solar farm in the world, with a capacity of 5GW, pushing the Golmud Solar Park, also based in China, into second place in the process. The new facility, believed to be roughly the size of New York […]
15,000 New Homes delayed due to shortage of grid connections
A third of housing developers across the UK are struggling to deliver housing schemes due to a shortage of grid connections, a survey has found. The survey of 50 housebuilders and developers, undertaken and published by Knight Frank, has found that around 15,000 new homes are currently still unavailable because utility firms are failing to […]
Tata Group announces plans for multi-million pound UK battery factory
Last month Tata announced plans to build a 40GW battery cell gigafactory in Somerset, UK, a venture that is expected to create up to 4,000 new jobs and provide a major boost for the UK’s transition to electric mobility. It will be Tata’s first gigafactory outside of India. Tata is proposing to invest over £4 […]
Heat pumps update: if your boiler’s on the blink, are you ready to take the plunge?
The concept of heat pumps (introduced 15 years ago) caused some initial excitement, but despite soaring gas and electricity bills and growing pressures to meet the UK’s Net Zero target, take up of heat pumps by consumers in the UK has so far proved disappointing. This is not necessarily surprising, as the earliest heat pumps […]
The Times reports on Government’s plans to build a third new nuclear power station
The Times has confirmed that plans for a third new nuclear power station in Britain could be approved, although full funding for the project has not yet been secured. The newly proposed plant should have the capacity to generate sufficient energy for six million households. The project would be similar in scale to Hinckley Point […]
