Nuclear

Nuclear presents ‘positive story’ for insurance investors

EDF won’t make ‘massive fortune’ from Hinkley, says director

Weekend press: Gas network battles revolt against hydrogen trial

Northern Gas Networks is battling to prevent its proposed hydrogen trial in Redcar from suffering the same fate as Cadent’s Whitby project, which was the only other candidate to become the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’ but was cancelled earlier this year due to local opposition. Also in the latest round-up of the weekend’s papers, the government is warned that heat pumps are currently ‘too noisy’ for millions of British homes and England sees no new applications for onshore wind farms.

Labour set to stick to Sizewell C finance deal

What is the potential for nuclear-enabled hydrogen?

Bill Gates company snubbed as six firms make SMR shortlist

Electricity consumption falls to non-lockdown record low

DFS expected to provide at least three times as much capacity

Weekend Press: Energy efficiency taskforce axed after four meetings

In our latest round-up of the weekend’s national news coverage, the government’s energy efficiency taskforce, charged with reducing the UK’s energy use by 15% by 2030, has been scrapped after just six months and four meetings. Elsewhere, the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) alleges that consumers have effectively overpaid hundreds of millions of pounds for the Moray East wind farm in north-east Scotland, Southern Water faces legal action over floods and Bill Gates raises concerns that his nuclear firm is to be snubbed in the UK modular reactor race.

Sizewell C legal challenge dampens investment launch

EDF launches new nuclear subsidiary company

Ex-Tory energy secretary blasts nuclear ‘mega dreams’

Ministers increase investment in Sizewell C

Weekend press: Health check of England’s waters faces six-year wait

‘Not a single person in supply chain’ thinks UK will hit net zero targets

Not a single person in the supply chain believes UK net zero targets will be achieved. That is the damning conclusion of the Energy Industries Council’s (EIC) annual Survive & Thrive report into global energy supply chains. Based on the views of 96 supply chain bosses, the EIC report concludes that “widespread delays in project funding strongly signposts that the UK is not going to meet its legally binding 2050 net zero target, and neither will Scotland meet its 2045 target”.