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EDF Energy has shut down a reactor at its power station in Lanchashire and doubled the plant’s 750-strong workforce as part of a £25 million maintenance programme.
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Reports on the fall-out of the sacking of Claire Perry O’Neill as COP26 chair and government plans to accelerate the EV rollout featured in this weekend’s papers. There is also a profile of the local grid project while Scottish Water’s CEO gives his view on how the industry should respond to the challenges of climate change.
Voter concern about climate change is impacting on Conservative thinking, a leading Tory environmentalist has suggested. However, translating this into an overturning of the existing block on onshore wind farms will still be “really tricky”.
We can’t afford to keep supporting slow and expensive nuclear technology when there are better, quicker and cheaper alternatives that will ultimately benefit consumers, says Good Energy's Kit Dixon
The countdown may well have begun on the final hours to Brexit, but the clock is ticking on the detail, says Suzanne Heneghan
The project to replace two coal units at Drax’s north Yorkshire plant are now subject to a judicial review. The company has insisted that the project will “help the UK on its path to net zero by 2050”
Recent confirmation from the Tory Party chairman that relocating the upper chamber from the capital
The government has banned Huawei from providing 5G equipment for nuclear power stations as part of a wider crackdown on the Chinese telecommunications giant.
The probe will consider whether the joint venture between National Grid and Scottish Power breached licence conditions in the delivery and operation of the £1.3 billion Western HVDC subsea cable between Scotland and Wales.
Fresh delays have been announced on the decision dates for giant offshore windfarms being developed by Vattenfall and Orsted.
Utilities make a tempting target for cyber-criminals. David Higgins, of CyberArk, explains how suppliers can stay one step ahead of the hackers.
