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Breaking Ground: World’s largest jack-up vessel at Dogger Bank; SSEN island upgrades

This week it was revealed that the world's largest jack-up installation vessel has been secured for the Dogger Bank project, and that there has been an update on the Garden City at Ebbsfleet from UKPN. Utility Week takes a look at these and more in our weekly round-up.

Full list of Utility Week Awards 2019 finalists

Armitt: ‘Now is not the time for caution’

The chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission talks to Denise Chevin about the risk-averse culture of government, why onshore wind should get more support and his views on renationalisation.

Utility of the Future: Utility watchdogs live to bare their teeth again

Pressure had been mounting over the past year to scrap the existing network of sector

Bevan: Firms can be part of climate change solution…. or the problem

Answers must change as quickly as the problems do, according to Sir James Bevan, chief executive of the Environment Agency who has insisted all companies in the utilities sector must realise the value of investing in resilience.

The Climate Emergency:“… this year the answers are different.”

Speaking at the Royal Holloway's Gordon Manley lecture on climate, Sir James Bevan says answers must change as fast as the problems. Although we may not know them yet but they will be different to last year.

Regulatory shake-up needed to hit net-zero

Securing renewable assets

European Commission has ‘caved’ to industry pressure

Time to make our case for the climate

Until recently, the climate change message was a study in reasoned, intellectual persuasion but over the past few months the mood music has changed. Suzanne Heneghan discusses how the sector can cut through the acrimony and noise.

Labour net-zero blueprint calls for 9,000 new wind turbines by 2030

More than half of the UK’s electricity needs should be supplied from wind power by 2030, according to a radical new decarbonisation plan drawn up for the Labour Party. The 30 by 2030 report stops short of committing to net-zero by 2030 but does set a target of 90 per cent of non-transport electricity demand being met from renewable and low-carbon sources.

Capacity Market to return after European Commission gives approval

The European Commission has approved the Capacity Market after an eight-month investigation, saying it complies with EU State Aid rules and is necessary to guarantee security of electricity supply in the UK

Solutions to decarbonising off-grid homes put forward

Analysis carried out by the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) industry’s trade association, and shown exclusively to Utility Week, has put forward a series of suggestions to tackle the decarbonisation of the UK’s 1.5 million rural off-grid homes

Government to remove planning threshold for electricity storage

National support for AD is ‘critical’

Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has been urged to provide stop gap funding to support the rollout of biomethane plants when the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme expires in 2021.