While total financed capacity fell 11% in 2021, most was for relatively low-cost onshore wind, with the 24.6 GW funded a record for a single year, says trade group WindEurope.
Agreement with at least 35 large residential developers will cover cost of fire protection measures in unsafe buildings more than 11 m tall on which they worked over the last 30 years.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls for 24 GW of power over the next 30 years, including small modular reactors possibly coming on line early in the next decade.
Norway’s Public Roads Administration (NPRA) has sealed the country’s largest-ever design, build, finance and maintain contract, valued at $2.2 billion, for a highway link between the city of Bergen and Sotra Island.
A global nuclear energy watchdog and the financier of the $2.8B program to cover the Chernobyl site's damaged reactor raised concern March 10 of power loss safety impacts, with worry also of a monitoring system cutoff at the still operating Zaporizhizhia plant—as both remain in Russian control.
By eliminating "noise" of unwanted readings, new sensor device developed at the University of Birmingham is more accurate and up to 10 times faster than current instruments, its developers claim.