Moorside nuclear station: 3 reactors, 0 built
The Moorside nuclear power station was a proposed 3.8 gigawatt plant near Sellafield in Cumbria. Toshiba, its owner, cancelled the scheme after failing to find a buyer and dissolved the...
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What Causes Power Failures in the UK?
On 9 August 2019, a lightning strike hit a transmission circuit near Eaton Socon. Within seconds, 1.1 GW of embedded generation disconnected from the grid. System frequency fell to 48.8...
Japan plastic-to-hydrogen plant opens in Shunan
In August 2023, a group led by Iwatani Corporation and Toyota Tsusho Corporation began commercial operation of Japan’s first plant that turns waste plastic into hydrogen. The facility sits in...
EDF Boss Says Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C Are on Track
In early 2024, EDF's chief executive declared that work on the Hinkley Point C station in Somerset and the Sizewell C development in Suffolk was progressing well. The statement landed...
Austria lost its Hinkley Point C legal challenge in 2020
In September 2020, the European Court of Justice definitively rejected Austria's challenge to the European Commission's approval of UK state aid for the Hinkley Point C power station. The ruling...
Berkeley Lab hybrid device yields H2, solar power
In 2018, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory demonstrated a single hybrid device that splits water with sunlight to produce hydrogen fuel and usable electricity simultaneously. Described in Nature Materials, the proof-of-concept...
Korean bacteria produce plastic and fuel from sunlight
A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has engineered a strain of cyanobacteria that produces both bioplastic and biofuel using nothing but sunlight and...
1.5°C Climate Target: Feasibility and Energy Pathways
The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, set a goal to hold global average temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it...
Colonial Pipeline paid ransom after May 2021 hack
On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline discovered a ransomware attack on its IT systems and proactively shut down its 5,500-mile fuel pipeline from Texas to New Jersey. The company paid...
UK shuts last coal plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar
On 30 September 2024, the United Kingdom's last operational coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, shut down for good. The closure ended 142 years of burning coal for power and...
Protos Energy Hub: Peel Environmental's Cheshire Cluster
Peel Environmental is turning a 54-hectare (134-acre) former industrial parcel near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, into a strategic energy and resource cluster called Protos. The site sits inside the wider Cheshire...
UK Energy: Net Zero Challenges, Grid Gaps and Investment
The United Kingdom has a legally binding target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a commitment enacted through the Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order...
