All Power & Water
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…
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…
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…
Sizewell B in maintenance shutdown
Added: 13 Oct 2014
EDF’s Sizewell B nuclear power station was yesterday shut down for a £60 million maintenance and re…
Yokogawa wins energy from waste deal
Added: 9 Oct 2014
Yokogawa yesterday confirmed it had been awarded a contract to supply control and safety systems fo…
Brussels approves Hinkley Point financing
Added: 8 Oct 2014
The European Commission today cleared the financing of EDF’s proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear plant…
Government "blows" renewables budget
Added: 3 Oct 2014
The government was today criticised for allocating 58% of its renewable energy budget to just eight…
Chemists boost biofuel production
Added: 3 Oct 2014
Chemical engineers in the US have modified yeast tolerance to enhance biofuel production capacity, …
World’s first CCS plant opens
Added: 2 Oct 2014
The world’s first commercial-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will begin operating in Canada …
Ineos buys Grangemouth power plant
Added: 2 Oct 2014
Ineos today announced it is buying the gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant that provides …
Renewables budget increased
Added: 2 Oct 2014
The government today announced it was increasing financial support for renewable energy by £95 mill…
Tata Steel among Grid shutdown firms
Added: 24 Sep 2014
Tata Steel was yesterday confirmed as one of the hundreds of industrial firms to have signed up to …
AMEC to partner Chinese nuclear firm
Added: 12 Sep 2014
Engineering contractor AMEC today announced it had signed an agreement with China National Nuclear …
National Grid awards “shutdown” contracts
Added: 11 Sep 2014
National Grid is in the process of awarding contracts to major energy users such as process facilit…
Biogas boost for food processors
Added: 11 Sep 2014
Food and drink processors with anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities were yesterday given a boost by …
There’s something about AD
Added: 3 Sep 2014
This summer saw a flurry of acquisitions in the UK’s anaerobic digestion market. John McKenna looks…
Cavendish Fluor to run 12 nuclear sites
Added: 1 Sep 2014
A joint venture of Fluor and Babcock subsidiary Cavendish Nuclear was today formally awarded the co…
The death of biomass conversions
Added: 27 Aug 2014
The government’s legal victory over Drax has rendered future conversions of coal plants to biomass …
Drax CCS pipeline work awarded
Added: 5 Aug 2014
Technip subsidiary Genesis has been hired by National Grid to carry out design work for a pipeline …
