All Power & Water

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…
Amec Areva team loses Sellafield role
Added: 13 Jan 2015
The government this morning confirmed that Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), a consortium of Amec …

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 …

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…
Government misses capacity auction target
Added: 19 Dec 2014
The UK’s first-ever Capacity Market auction concluded yesterday, securing less generating capacity …

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 …

Grid encourages more plant shutdowns
Added: 15 Dec 2014
National Grid is encouraging more energy-intensive businesses to reduce their demand when electrici…

Revised biogas tariffs confirmed
Added: 9 Dec 2014
The government today confirmed the restructuring of feed-in tariffs paid for biomethane fed into th…
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…

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 merger finalised
Added: 13 Nov 2014
Amec has completed its £2 billion takeover of Foster Wheeler to create an oil & gas services compan…

Pure play
Added: 12 Nov 2014
As global water regulations tighten, filtration technologies are evolving to help process industrie…

Energy storage nanomaterial revealed
Added: 11 Nov 2014
A strong and flexible nanomaterial that could have applications in energy storage and water treatme…

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 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 …

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…
