Happy New Year! 2025 is promising to be an interesting one with the announcement of the ‘New Town’ locations (expected by July), a new NPPF and increased support for renewables. Energy and infrastructure, that’s what we’re about. Get ahead this year and speak to our Surveyors, Planners and Engineers for advice. Pipelines and PADHI Zones […]
Heat pumps update: if your boiler’s on the blink, are you ready to take the plunge?
The concept of heat pumps (introduced 15 years ago) caused some initial excitement, but despite soaring gas and electricity bills and growing pressures to meet the UK’s Net Zero target, take up of heat pumps by consumers in the UK has so far proved disappointing. This is not necessarily surprising, as the earliest heat pumps […]
The Times reports on Government’s plans to build a third new nuclear power station
The Times has confirmed that plans for a third new nuclear power station in Britain could be approved, although full funding for the project has not yet been secured. The newly proposed plant should have the capacity to generate sufficient energy for six million households. The project would be similar in scale to Hinckley Point […]
Viking Link will help to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
The world’s longest land and subsea electricity cable, connecting Denmark and the UK, began operating for the first time on 29 December 2023. The record breaking interconnector extends for 765 km between substations in Lincolnshire and southern Jutland. Initially it will power up 1.6 million British households but by 2025 it should be at full […]
Electric Superhighway has received the go ahead from Scottish and English planning authorities
In recent news, we learned that planning consent has been granted on all onshore and offshore aspects of the Eastern Green Link 2 project (EGL2), a joint venture between National Grid and SSEN Transmission. Construction of the 525kV, 2GW high voltage sub-sea cable will take five years, with 291 miles of high voltage direct current […]
Lithium: why the ‘White Gold Rush’?
Competition for Lithium is reported to be fierce. What is it, and what does it mean for our chances of phasing out fossil fuels for good? Lithium, referred to as white gold due to its silvery colour, is one of the lightest and most reactive elements on earth. This makes it ideal for storing energy […]
Utilities Management – What does the future hold?
The past few years have seen sweeping changes across the UK’s energy sector and this shows no sign of slowing down. The Government’s commitment to becoming ‘carbon neutral’ by 2050 has coincided with high fuel prices and critical fuel shortages due to the war in the Ukraine, the lack of battery storage, and issues with […]
HyNet: what is it, and could it affect you?
What is HyNet? HyNet North West is a major new venture, due to be launched by Cadent and scheduled to begin in 2025. It will deliver the UK’s first 100% hydrogen pipeline. What will this involve? A combination of new technology and infrastructure, and upgrading and re-purposing of existing fossil fuel production plants, to produce, […]
