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High Court judge overturns consent for Norfolk Vanguard offshore windfarm

A High Court judge has overturned the decision last year by then business and energy secretary, Alok Sharma, to award a development consent order for the 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore windfarm being developed by Vattenfall. The judge said the secretary of state had acted unlawfully by failing to provide adequate justification for declining to consider the cumulative impacts of the onshore infrastructure for Norfolk Vanguard and its 1.8GW sister project, Norfolk Boreas, when granting planning permission for the former.

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EDF Energy suffers £160 million impact from Covid

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Networks to build digital map of Britain’s energy system

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Peter Emery: COP26 is an opportunity to learn quickly

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NIC calls for collective push to drive down water consumption

Government, regulators and industry must build on their recently transformed collaboration to deliver a strategy for reducing per capita water consumption, according to the National Infrastructure Commission

4 years ago

Battery reserve trial sees substantial cost savings

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TNUoS: The biggest barrier to net zero targets?

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Slye: We need to educate consumers before expecting them to act

The director of the Electricity System Operator talks to Utility Week as part of our Countdown to COP campaign. He stresses that the energy system alone cannot deliver decarbonisation and that the industry must bring consumers along. He also talks about the "clear, urgent, no regrets actions" that can remove barriers to deploying decarbonised heat solutions at scale.

4 years ago

Weekend press round-up: Green energy stampede sends prices sky-high

In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, concerns are raised about a bubble forming in renewable energy. Elsewhere, National Grid discusses plans to link North Sea wind farms directly to interconnectors; the implications of water trading are set out and there are accusations that the UK’s public electric vehicle charging network is not growing fast enough to meet demand

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