Tag Archives: Energy

Significant milestones have been achieved on the Hinkley Point C project over the past six months, with offshore works having reached the final stage.

Is there a proven way to store surplus energy? NCE reports on the potential of pumped storage hydroelectricity in the UK and looks into the proposed Coire Glas scheme.

As the government strives to expand capacity to meet future electricity demand, nuclear power and tidal energy are at the opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of support.

Algeco temporary buildings use smart technology to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.

Building small modular nuclear reactors within pop up factories could make the construction of nuclear power capacity faster.

As a student studying geotechnics, I used to joke about needing to attach things to magic “sky hooks” in order to solve some slope stability challenges or to undertake the temporary works stages of schemes I had been tasked to design. No help in that form was coming though, so…

The future of the £165M Woodhouse Colliery coal mine in Cumbria is in doubt after amendments were tabled to the Energy Bill in the House of Lords to outlaw coal mines in England.

The government risks not meeting its ambition to decarbonise power by 2035 because it lacks a delivery plan, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

Thomas Johnson’s article (NCE, online 12 January) quotes Nick Smallwood as saying that High Speed 2 (HS2) was not well developed, scoped, prepared and planned. He misses the main factor which turned the public against it – the inadequate marketing and selling of the project to the public and the…

Main Point The debate about valuing water raises many issues from a civil engineering perspective (NCE, last month). It speaks eloquently about the need to get together and value water holistically but then focuses only on public water supply with no mention about the increasing water needs of agriculture particularly…