Curtins publishes latest embodied carbon data with key sector findings

Construction of Ib vogt and Firma Energy’s Dean Moor Solar Farm by Workington will take between 18 months and two years to complete.

Cheshire West and Chester’s planning committee is also expected to approve Taylor Wimpey’s pitch for 110 homes in Tattenhall, and a 94-acre solar farm.

Originally given the go-ahead by the county council in 2024, the Sesona proposal to build a facility at the Thornton-Cleveleys site returned to committee on technical matters.

The county council has served an enforcement notice on the energy company, requiring the restoration of the Preston New Road fracking site in line with approved planning conditions.

The 134-acre Ince site was acquired last March to enable expansion of the Protos energy park.

Seals of approval were given to all of the applications on the local authority’s planning committee agenda this week, setting the area up for an influx of houses in Whitehaven, Carlisle, and Brampton.

Announced at The Great North Summit in Leeds, the funding will be spread across the next 10 years and will support investment in areas crucial to regional growth, such as energy, transport, infrastructure, regeneration, and housing.

Marram Energy Storage Hub would provide long-term storage for wind energy that otherwise would have been wasted, as well as six days of supply for the country’s gas energy needs.

Fylde Council has voted to approve the 34,000 sq ft “technology exemplar building”, which will seek to put Blackpool Council’s data centre campus’s green goals into action by exploring sustainable cooling methods.

SP Electricity North West will commence constructing a 33,000-volt substation in a few weeks, eyeing a 2027 completion for the key part of infrastructure for Blackpool Council’s envisioned data centre cluster.

Grid connection availability was cited as one of the main reasons for the renewable energy company’s decision to abandon the project, which had been estimated to be capable of powering more than 34,000 homes.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero company has signed a two-stage contract with Rolls-Royce to ready the North Wales site for three small modular nuclear reactors.

This panel session hosted by Place North explored how from offshore wind farms and tidal power to advanced manufacturing and AI infrastructure, the North of England is positioning itself as one of the UK’s most important energy and technology powerhouses. 

Mayors, city leaders, and Combined Authority officials from across the Midlands, the North of England, and Scotland used a roundtable hosted by Place North to argue that the UK’s next wave of growth will be driven by regional cities, highlighting opportunities in AI, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and housing, while calling for deeper devolution and stronger infrastructure investment.

Around seven acres across two fields can be used to help power the National Trust’s Erddig Hall after a resounding vote in favour.

Latos Data Centres is readying plans for a 28,000 sq ft scheme on the corner of Bower Street and Ten Acres Lane in Newton Heath.

The proposed shipping import terminals would transport industrial carbon dioxide emissions from elsewhere in the world to the Morecambe Net Zero carbon store in the East Irish Sea.

Currently home to a 7.8MW project with permission in place to grow it by another 10MW, Roanhead Farm offers 268 acres of land by Barrow-in-Furness.

“Liverpool is seizing a once‑in‑a‑generation opportunity to transform how our city is heated,” said Leader Cllr Liam Robinson.