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Vince Cable

“Reshore UK” scheme launched

Added: 31 Jan 2014

The Government has launched a new “one-stop-shop” service to help manufacturing firms return produc…

Battling blackouts

Battling blackouts

Added: 28 Jan 2014

As the UK’s electricity generating capacity continues to fall faster than new plants can be built, …

Invensys control room

Schneider acquisition promises energy growth

Added: 28 Jan 2014

Executives at Schneider Electric anticipate strong growth in the company’s energy management produc…

CCS plant

Renewables project gets green light

Added: 27 Jan 2014

Scottish renewables firm Forth Energy has been given approval to build a combined heat and power (C…

David Cameron World Economic Forum Davos 2014

Shale vital for “reshoring” says PM

Added: 24 Jan 2014


Prime Minister David Cameron today told world leaders gathered in Switzerland that development of s…

Nat Grid gas pipeline Tirley12

Energy firm closes CCGT facility

Added: 24 Jan 2014

E.ON has announced it will close its combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) facility in Stoke, and cut c…

UK's largest renewables project

Largest biogas project selects suppliers

Added: 22 Jan 2014

A Scottish distillery that is building the UK’s largest biogas to grid project has selected the fir…

Cuadrilla shale site

The year ahead

Added: 15 Jan 2014

Happy New Year. It looks as though 2014 is, like last year, going to be a year where energy dominat…

Cory biogas facility

Biogas desulphurisation cuts costs at Cory

Added: 7 Jan 2014

Accurate and dependable online gas composition analysis an essential part of the new desulphurisati…

Offshore wind farm at dusk

Plan to pay process plants to use electricity

Added: 7 Jan 2014

Exclusive: National Grid is considering paying major energy users such as process plants to use ele…

Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

Wylfa nuclear reaches milestone

Added: 6 Jan 2014

Wylfa Newydd proposed nuclear facility receives boost as assessment of its nuclear reactor progress…

Sellafield nuclear facility

Vitrification plant to open at Sellafield

Added: 6 Jan 2014

The UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) today said it will develop a waste disposal test facility …

Sellafield nuclear reactor plant

Westinghouse enters Sellafield

Added: 24 Dec 2013

US nuclear reactor firm Westinghouse joins up with GDF Suez to build 3.6GW plant at Sellafield.

Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

Ofgem approves demand response scheme

Added: 23 Dec 2013

The energy regulator Ofgem has approved National Grid’s plans to introduce a demand side scheme to …

Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

Energy Bill gains Royal Assent

Added: 19 Dec 2013

The government’s Energy Bill containing its long-running electricity market reforms yesterday becam…

Chemical Plant

Energy & the global game

Added: 18 Dec 2013

At this time of Christmas Carols, there is a growing chorus of chemicals company bosses crying out …

Areas under Consideration (SEA Areas) and Currently Licensed Areas

Shale drilling considered for bulk of UK

Added: 18 Dec 2013

The government is considering over half of the land across the UK as potential areas for shale gas …

CCS plant

Tees Valley process funding agreed

Added: 16 Dec 2013

Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Friday a deal to boost the process industries on Teesside.

Ineos Grangemouth

Ineos considers UK shale production

Added: 16 Dec 2013

Chemicals firm Ineos is considering plans to begin shale production in the UK.

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Drax CCS wins FEED funding

Added: 9 Dec 2013

The firms behind a planned £2.2bn coal-fired plant fully equipped with Carbon Capture and Storage (…