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Electric Car

UK Backs Ford With £600m to Build EVs

The cars will be built in Essex and Merseyside before being shipped across five continents.

Natural Gas

Eastward Gas Flows via Yamal-Europe Pipeline Fall to Zero

Eastbound gas flows through the Yamal-Europe pipeline to Poland from Germany fell to zero on Monday morning, while Russian supplies to Europe via Ukraine inched…

United Kingdom

UK Power Networks Launches Biggest-Ever Flexibility Tender

UKPN has launched a Flexibility Tender that could potentially unlock more than 500MW of capacity, equivalent to 300,000 homes over the next three years.

United Kingdom

Octopus Acquires Solar Developer

Zestec has a pipeline of more than 160MW of new UK solar energy.

Hydrogen Production

BP Is Betting Big on Green Hydrogen

UK supermajor BP sees low-carbon hydrogen as one of its key growth areas and is betting on green hydrogen to advance the energy transition and the decarbonizati…

Oil Refinery

Lukoil Says Its Italian Refinery Will Continue Operations After EU Embargo

Lukoil said on Friday that it is ready to ensure continued operations at the site after the EU embargo on imports of Russian crude by sea takes effect on Decemb…

Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Power Is Finally Poised to Ramp up Again in Japan

The Japanese have been hesitant to re-embrace nuclear power following the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, but there are indicat…

Natural Gas

Eni Holds Preliminary Talks to Buy UK Gas Producer for up to $6 Billion

Italian energy major Eni has held preliminary talks to potentially buy UK-based gas-focused producer Neptune Energy for up to $6 billion, Reuters reported on We…

Electric Car

UK Approves $26.6 Billion Power Grid Investment to Expand Renewable Capacity

Six electricity distribution network companies, covering fourteen local networks in the UK, will have $26.6 billion (£22.2 billion) to invest by 2028 to make t…

Wind Turbine

UK Wind Turbine Blade Recycling Takes a Front Seat

A Scottish startup that repurposes old wind turbine blades for benches and shelters has secured £50k grant funding.

Nuclear Power Plant

UK Government Steps up as 50% Owner of 3.2-GW Sizewell C EPR Nuclear Project

The UK government will bolster a proposal to build Sizewell C with a £679 million ($815 million) investment, giving the twin EPR nuclear power plant project—a…

LNG

Europe to Raise LNG Import Capacity Significantly Through 2024

The EU and the UK are expected to raise their combined LNG import capacity by 34%, or by 6.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), by 2024 compared with 2021.

Oil Refinery

Italy Set to Nationalise Lukoil Refinery - Paper

Italy's government is set to nationalise the Lukoil-owned ISAB refinery in Sicily and will ask the cabinet to decide on the matter at a meeting scheduled on Thu…

Offshore Wind Power

UK Government Moves to Defuse Parliamentary Row over Onshore Wind

Britain's government sought on Monday to defuse a simmering row over a push by some Conservative lawmakers to make it easier to build onshore wind farms by sayi…

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA Concludes Second Water Safety Review at Fukushima Daiichi Plant

The IAEA mission took place on 14-18 November.