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Sellafield nuclear facility

Sellafield: too big to be private

Added: 14 Jan 2015

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey made a startling admission yesterday as he informed pa…

Pilz safety relays receive nuclear approval

Amec Areva team loses Sellafield role

Added: 13 Jan 2015

The government this morning confirmed that Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), a consortium of Amec …

SIHI Isochem modular chemical pump

Flowserve buys Dutch pump manufacturer

Added: 8 Jan 2015

Pumps and valves manufacturer Flowserve yesterday confirmed it had completed its acquisition the Ne…

Food production must cut water use by a fifth

Added: 6 Jan 2015

The use of water in food production must be cut by 20% globally to avoid rocketing food prices and …

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Drax CCS clears planning hurdle

Added: 23 Dec 2014

The companies behind a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Drax power station today announc…

Sabic process plant

Government misses capacity auction target

Added: 19 Dec 2014

The UK’s first-ever Capacity Market auction concluded yesterday, securing less generating capacity …

Drax Power Plant

Drax CCS wells FEED awarded

Added: 19 Dec 2014

National Grid has awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the wells required on …

National Grid

Grid encourages more plant shutdowns

Added: 15 Dec 2014

National Grid is encouraging more energy-intensive businesses to reduce their demand when electrici…

AD facility

Revised biogas tariffs confirmed

Added: 9 Dec 2014

The government today confirmed the restructuring of feed-in tariffs paid for biomethane fed into th…

Pilz safety relays receive nuclear approval

Maths model could ‘improve nuclear safety’

Added: 5 Dec 2014

Researchers at the University of Leeds have created a mathematical model that predicts how stalagmi…

Bara PPMA Robot2

Cyber security and robotics “priorities”

Added: 27 Nov 2014

Action must be taken to support six fast-growth industries that could significantly boost the UK ec…

Amec Foster Wheeler Samir Brikho

Amec Foster Wheeler merger finalised

Added: 13 Nov 2014

Amec has completed its £2 billion takeover of Foster Wheeler to create an oil & gas services compan…

Apateq onsite water separation

Pure play

Added: 12 Nov 2014

As global water regulations tighten, filtration technologies are evolving to help process industrie…

Mxenes conductive polymer nanocomposite

Energy storage nanomaterial revealed

Added: 11 Nov 2014

A strong and flexible nanomaterial that could have applications in energy storage and water treatme…

Boundary Dam CCS

CCS near widespread deployment

Added: 5 Nov 2014

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is now on the cusp of widespread global deployment, according to a…

Didcot B power station

Didcot back to 75% capacity after fire

Added: 29 Oct 2014

The Didcot B power station unit damaged by fire last week has returned to partial operation, plant …

Peterhad CCGT plant, Aberdeenshire FULL

Spare grid capacity down to 4%

Added: 29 Oct 2014

National Grid yesterday warned that the UK’s spare electricity generating capacity this winter will…

National Grid

The big turnoff

Added: 22 Oct 2014

Energy management has officially come of age.

Didcot B power station

Fire halves Didcot capacity

Added: 20 Oct 2014

The 1.4GW Didcot B power station will run at half its generating capacity for the foreseeable futur…

Peterhad CCGT plant, Aberdeenshire

Wood Group wins Shell CCS FEED

Added: 16 Oct 2014

Shell has hired Wood Group’s subsea engineering division to carry out the front end engineering des…