Infrastructure and services giant Carillion has gone into liquidation after talks with its lenders failed to answer funding questions.

Carillion works across the energy sector. In facilities management, its energy services arm provides funding for energy efficiency programmes as well as direct energy management for industrial and commercial companies.

It has significant interests in electricity network provision. Among infrastructure projects are three works for National Grid. The largest is a new £38 million, 400kV overhead line in Kent, which is needed to transport power from the planned ‘Nemo’ interconnector with Belgium. The project won development consent in August 2017 and work has started. It is a joint venture of Carillion and Eltel Networks (which itself announced plans in September to sell its power transmission business to Encomm Sweden).

Carillion was also working on relocation of a cable at Wylfa to support the development of the new nuclear plant, and an asset replacement transformer at West Weybridge.