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Cheap flexibility from storage, demand-side response and distributed generation poses a “huge threat” to the nuclear industry, according to former energy secretary Ed Davey.
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The chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has called on utilities and regulators to back the recommendations it has made to government about the investment needed for infrastructure.
Tim Stone will take over as chair of the Nuclear Industry Association from Lord John Hutton who will step down at the conclusion of his term at the NIA’s annual general meeting on 5 December.
A “Tidal Lagoon Taskforce” has convened in Wales to enable local and national authorities, as well as community and business leaders, to consider the full suite of options for financing and delivering Swansea Bay tidal lagoon independent to Westminster.
The contribution of renewables to electricity generation hit a new record peak in the second quarter of this year as solar power picked up the slack resulting from the summer "wind drought", new official statistics show.
Leon Flexman, corporate affairs director at Hitachi-backed Horizon Nuclear Power said that cost reductions in the Wylfa project are having a knock-on impact on the strike price, the guaranteed floor for the sum it will be paid for generating electricity.
Toshiba is holding discussions with asset management giant Brookfield about taking its stake in the troubled Moorside nuclear project.
NuGen has announced that it is cutting more than half of the jobs on its troubled new build nuclear project at Moorside in Cumbria.
NuGen’s board is meeting today (10 September) to consider job cuts on its troubled project to build a new nuclear plant in Cumbria.
The nuclear industry lags behind other industries in terms of technological innovation over recent decades, the director general of the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency has said.
Excluding nuclear from the energy mix dramatically increases the cost of decarbonising the power system, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Plaid Cymru opposition to Horizon’s Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant is stiffening as the Welsh nationalists’ leader has pledged to carry out a review of her party’s energy policy.
As part of the first batch of 25 documents, which offer advice to people and organisations, the government has published two papers looking at the key issues of regulations and research for nuclear.
The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Nuclear Research Centre (ANRC) has appointed a “world leader” in the power generation industry as its next chair.
Horizon Nuclear Power has appointed Bechtel as the project management contractor for the proposed Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant on the Isle of Anglesey.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has notified EDF Energy and Doosan Babcock of its
