Conservative MP Antoinette Sandbach writes ahead of her Westminster Hall debate on the ‘Effect on the solar industry of the replacement of the feed-in tariff’.

The UK civil nuclear industry is supporting National Apprenticeship Week (Monday 4 – Friday 8 March). The nuclear industry employs around 2,000 apprentices up and down the country. 

‘Investment in potential talent, training and recruitment can reap immense benefits for business and communities’, was a key theme at the Sellafield Ltd sponsored New Statesman Northern Powerhouse Conference in Leeds.

Calor Gas is concerned that the Committee on Climate Change is over-reaching its advisory role by attempting to dictate the technology British house builders and home owners should have to use in future new housing. 

South East Cornwall MP Sheryll Murray writes about her Westminster Hall debate today on the UK deep sea mining industry.

Residents of a block of flats in Brixton are pioneering a community energy trading project led by EDF Energy that will enable them to trade solar energy with each other.

Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson, Managing Director of the Sizewell C nuclear project, gives his view on the cost challenge following Horizon's decision to suspend work on planned nuclear power stations at Wylfa and Oldbury.

Following the recent news that Hitachi has pulled out of the Wylfa project in North Wales, the SSE Chief Executive writes that "It is time to aim higher and seize the opportunity that offshore wind brings".

Head of Corporate Affairs at Sellafield Ltd marks #CumbriaDay ahead of a parliamentary event on 23rd January and points out that the site employs 11,000 people and contributes hundreds of millions of pounds to the Cumbrian economy.

Last week, UKLPG highlighted to the BEIS Select Committee that an unintended consequence of the methodology behind Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) is moving some homeowners away from low carbon fuels and onto higher carbon energy sources.

The lights are going out on a coherent UK energy policy, Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, said today, as Hitachi suspends work on the Wylfa nuclear power station.

Nuclear Industry Association reaction to Hitachi’s decision to suspend work on Wylfa Newydd project:

SSEN’s Director of Transmission writes following the completion of Caithness-Moray transmission link, the largest single investment ever undertaken by the SSE Group and represents the most significant investment in the north of Scotland electricity transmission system since the 1950s. 

Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, has joined the chorus of concern over the future of the Wylfa nuclear power station.

The latest round of public consultation for a proposed new nuclear power station in Suffolk starts today.

Transformation Director Angela Seeney writes that in 2018 "the Sellafield nuclear site has had one of the most significant years of change in its 60 year history".

The site’s Thorp plant has completed its 24-year mission to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from around the world.

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the NIA, said:

The withdrawal of Toshiba from the Moorside nuclear power station project is ‘a cruel blow’ to the north west economy on which thousands of future jobs are depending, Unite the union said today. 

Following the recently published Public Accounts Committee report into risk reduction at Sellafield, Jamie Reed reflects on the past twelve months of progress at the West Cumbrian site - one of the biggest environmental remediation challenges in Europe.

World Mental Health Day on 10th October was once again a reminder for Sellafield Ltd employees to think about their mental health.

Sellafield Ltd has announced it will fund 50 new apprenticeships a year for small companies in Cumbria.

The Business and Industry minister Richard Harrington joined a panel of energy experts including the Nuclear Industry Association and Sellafield, to discuss nuclear power and renewables at Conservative party conference.

Highly-paid water company bosses would be sacked under Labour's plans to renationalise the industry, John McDonnell