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European Green Transition, a company focused on acquiring, integrating and optimising revenue-generating and profitable services businesses in the critical infrastructure sector, announces a proposed...

Government to tackle speculative industry grid connection requests to boost growth and jobs

Projects that drive growth and jobs will be powered up faster as government consults on new powers to clamp down on speculative electricity grid...

Improving network operation and capacity are both essential to maximising the benefits of renewable...

New modelling from LCP Delta highlights that the costs of managing electricity network bottlenecks can be reduced under the government’s upcoming Reformed National Pricing...

Good Energy partners with Wiltshire College & University Centre to launch new green skills...

Renewable energy company and services provider Good Energy has partnered with Wiltshire College & University Centre to create a new training facility as part...

Grid connection reforms give renewable energy providers reason to cheer

Legal expert Rebecca Dawson from Square One Law explains how new reforms could improve grid access and unlock renewable energy projects across the UK… The...

UK energy capacity growth lags global average amid rising costs and delays

The global energy sector is facing mounting pressure as accelerating demand collides with grid constraints, rising project costs, and shifting government policies, according to...

Britain’s biggest clean energy auction

Britain announces record levels of new solar and onshore wind projects as part of its latest renewables auction. This comes just weeks after the single...

Biggest homes upgrade plan in British history

The Warm Homes Plan will deliver £15 billion of public investment, rollout upgrades to up to 5 million homes that could save them hundreds on energy bills and help to lift up to a million families out of...

RESPs Cannot be an Island

Today, ADE: Demand has highlighted that Britain’s new Regional Energy Strategic Plans (RESPs) risk becoming disconnected from wider reforms, after reviewing the official blueprint...

Money set aside for security spend can turn offshore wind turbines into defence assets

A portion of defence spending should be dedicated to making offshore wind infrastructure fit for emerging security threats, according to a new report from...

UK and Ireland make significant steps toward decarbonisation says GridBeyond’s latest report

The UK and the Irish governments have faced an evolving geopolitical and economic landscape shaped by volatile global energy markets, rising financing costs, and...

Great Britain sets new record for renewable energy planning approvals

Planning approvals for battery, wind, and solar projects in Great Britain (GB) have almost doubled over the past year, with more than 45GW of...

Waste, energy and the planning system: Five Lessons from Portland

The Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold planning permission for the £180 million Portland Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in Dorset, UK marks a decisive moment for...

UK SMEs could pay £100+ a year under new nuclear levy

UK businesses are preparing for higher energy bills as a new nuclear levy is set to appear on electricity bills from 1st December 2025....

Chancellor should move energy policy costs from electricity bills into general taxation in Autumn...

RenewableUK is urging the Chancellor to take a series of key measures to help billpayers and stimulate industrial growth in the clean energy sector...
Rolls Royce's vision of how a small nuclear reactor might look. The report acknowledges Rolls Royce's support.

Wylfa confirmed as site for UK’s first small modular reactor

Great British Energy - Nuclear (GBE-N) has announced that Wylfa on Anglesey has been selected as the site for the UK’s first Small Modular...

“We’re going to end up with a market that continues not to serve investors...

At a recent panel discussion at CI Live 2025 this week on Generation Policy and Locational Investment Signals, energy sector leaders warned that without coherent...

Grid reform and the delivery deficit: Why the planning sector must engage beyond policy

Last week’s House of Lords report into electricity grid infrastructure delivers a blunt verdict: ‘The grid is not ready’ for net zero. Published by...

Government’s Carbon Delivery Plan is a gamble with Britain’s Net Zero future

Yesterday’s Carbon Delivery Plan is a high-stakes gamble - one that places Britain’s industrial backbone, clean heat ambitions and net zero future in jeopardy, warns...

Half of Britons overwhelmed by conflicting climate information

UK100, a network of councils led by all political parties working together to tackle climate change, today highlighted concerning new data from the Department...