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Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has revealed it is exploring options to build data centres within the Uskmouth power station development site in Newport. The company has also announced that due to disruption caused by Covid, the Uskmouth project will now be developed in two phases.
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Cadent’s director of strategy has predicted that technological advances in the electrolysis process, along with hikes in carbon prices, are likely to rapidly reduce the cost of green hydrogen. However, Dr Angie Needle warned that the UK faces losing its competitive advantage on hydrogen in the meantime, unless it produces a robust strategy for the sector.
The UK could raise its 2050 target for offshore windfarms to 100GW, the former head of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has predicted.
EDF has opened a new engineering design centre which will support the next phase of construction at the Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C nuclear plants. The UK EPR Design Centre at Aztec West in Bristol will bring together nuclear designers and engineers from EDF and British engineering partners and suppliers to support the construction and commissioning of UK EPR nuclear reactors.
Northumbrian has invested £9.5 million in harnessing biomethane from the wastewater treatment process that will cut energy bills for the company and, once returned to National Grid, will power up to 5,000 homes
In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, there is criticism of executive pay in the water sector and concern about EDF’s ability to build power stations on time and budget. Meanwhile, there will be no judicial review for a project to build the UK's largest solar farm
The business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) secretary of state has insisted that the government will publish its long-delayed energy white paper in the autumn.
Energy efficiency has been cited as the “biggest missed opportunity of the last decade” in a report released today by the Energy Institute. The Energy Barometer 2020, an annual survey of energy professionals, found that almost three quarters of the 350 respondents believe the government is not doing enough reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Resistance from the top echelons of government to a rapid rollout of energy efficiency measures reflects a lack of knowledge on the issue, Lord Deben has said. The Committee on Climate Change chair also called on BEIS to set up a mechanism to curb regulations that get in the way of the UK’s broader net-zero goal.
