Infrastructure News
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has given its consent for a new 1,520-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine power plant to be build in Manchester, UK.
The government has given the green light for the construction of a new biomass power plant at Bristol Port, Avonmouth, that will power up to 200,000 homes.
General Electric has announced plans to build a €110 million (£99 million) offshore wind turbine plant in the UK, creating up to 1,900 jobs by 2020.
Total and Dong Energy have been handed the go-ahead from the government for a £2.5 billion project to develop Britain's Laggan and Tormore gas fields.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson has announced an £80 million loan to UK company Sheffield Forgemasters to help develop the country's nuclear supply chain.
GE Oil and Gas has won contracts worth more than $1.1 billion to supply equipment to the construction and running of the Gorgon LNG project, the company has said.
The introduction of a new planning regime for major infrastructure this week will help speed up the development of the UK's energy projects, ministers say.