This is one of those stories you sort of hear about a couple of weeks before, and maybe forget about unless some little nugget of information comes along that makes you want to dig a little deeper into it. Which is exactly what happened to me this morning. I do recall maybe even commenting on...
Alice Cunningham BBC News, Suffolk Sizewell C The government has said it will invest £14.2bn into the Sizewell C nuclear power plant The government has committed £14.2bn of investment to build the new Sizewell C nuclear plant on the Suffolk coastline, ahead of the Spending Review. It will create 10,000 direct jobs, thousands more in...
A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province on Tuesday around noon, killing at least five people and injuring 19 others. Footage circulating online shows thick columns of black smoke rising from the site. More than 200 emergency workers were dispatched to Shandong Youdao Chemical factory, which according to its website...
I haven’t had one of these stories in a while to fuss over, with everything going on in the world and that’s a good thing. Plus, there’s the fact that the Trump administration has been cooling some serious jets on the renewable scam side of the house, so perhaps the potential for building bigger and...
Decisions taken within the next few days will determine whether British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant stays open, the BBC understands. The plant’s Chinese owner, Jingye, has cancelled two cargo shipments of coking coal for the site’s two blast furnaces and it has not yet paid for iron pellets that are scheduled to arrive next week. Without...
Exeter Energy is insisting that publicly-owned greenfield land in Riverside Valley Park is the only viable site for a heat network plant it is proposing to build while failing to explain why it has rejected brownfield alternatives in nearby Marsh Barton industrial estate. The Leeds-based company, which is controlled by 1Energy Group and Asper Investment...
The developer of an energy plant proposed for a Riverside Valley Park public open space has said that its “primary source of heat generation” will be from on-site air source heat pumps despite previously presenting River Exe water source access as central to the scheme. Exeter Energy, a Leeds-based company controlled by 1Energy Group and...