The planning regime for so-called Nationally -Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) reached a milestone in February with development consent for a power plant in King’s Lynn granted by energy secretary Amber Rudd.
The feed-in tariff (FIT) deployment cap for all anaerobic digestion installations was reached just 15 minutes and 28 seconds after the scheme reopened – at lower tariff levels – on 8 February after a four-week pause.
A Chinese investment group is to invest £2 billion in two innovative biomass plants and associated food production stations in Wales.
Construction work is about to start on a waste to energy plant in Northwich that will use a new enzyme-based process to convert waste to gas. The gas will be used to generate electricity and the site should produce 5MW.
of new links
More interconnection with Europe will push up energy costs and carbon emissions, without ensuring security of supply, says a new report by independent energy market analytics firm Aurora Energy Research.
EDF Energy has announced life extensions for four of its nuclear power stations, claiming the highest nuclear output for ten years in 2015 at 60.5TWh.
MPs have polished off their deliberations on the Energy Bill in just seven committee sittings.
What are the pathways for the UK energy sector to 2030? That question was addressed in a survey for industry body Energy UK and released in February.
MPs on the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change (ECCC) took evidence on investor sentiment
during February.
“Capital has never been cheaper and it probably won’t get much lower. The question should be ‘how can we build more today and lock in that low cost of capital for decades?’”.