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Two additional projects are negotiating to be included in the HyNet carbon capture, utilisation, and storage network, raising the total number of direct skilled jobs supported by the initiative to approximately 2,800 across North Wales and North West England These newly prioritized projects are: ➡ Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power, a proposed facility in North Wales designed to generate clean energy sufficient for up to 900,000 homes, while capturing its own CO₂ emissions. ➡ Ince Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage in Cheshire, a pioneering scheme that converts waste wood into energy and permanently removes approximately 217,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually. These additions complement three existing core CCUS-enabled sites already in the HyNet cluster: ➡ Encyclis’s Protos energy recovery plant in Cheshire ➡ Heidelberg Materials’ Padeswood cement works in North Wales ➡ EET Hydrogen’s Hydrogen Production Plant 1 at Stanlow in Cheshire. Moreover, five supplementary projects—including hydrogen production facilities and direct air capture schemes.

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£15.6M substation energised in East London, doubling local capacity A £15.6M #substation at Nelson Street in East London, owned by UK Power Networks and delivered by Clancy, has been energised, doubling #electricaldistribution capacity for local users. The project in East Ham launched in 2020 and was designed to improve the resilience and capacity of #electricity provision for local end users. In a statement shared before the project was finished, contractor Clancy said it would “install and connect three #132kV transformers inside a newly constructed substation, as part of UK Power Networks’ long-term project to provide a modern, resilient network which will support new housing and electric vehicle charging in the area. “The project involved demolishing the existing substation, including diverting live cabling and removing 400m of redundant #cabling, and the construction of a new substation on site.” The contractor added that it had “made alterations to the project design to minimise risk, especially when the creation of the new substation required a massive 40m by 35m excavation at a depth of 2.5m – equating to 3,500 cubic metres of removed soil.” Also speaking ahead of project completion, Clancy project manager Andy Cherrett said: “Each transformer weighs 54,000kg, that meant deploying a large lorry loader with a vehicle crane in busy streets and safely transferring the equipment with specialist lifting machinery." Referring to the excavation work, Cherrett added that “any excavation work required within a live substation is always a challenge in itself, but to find the room to facilitate an excavation of this extent was an extremely difficult task due to the clusters of existing services underground in this type of location. “We used trial holes to initially expose the underground cables and sheet piling and allow us to reach the required depth of the building. The scanning equipment was used throughout this process to ensure the safety of our team at all times” Announcing energisation of the substation today [28 August], UK Power Networks said: “The upgrade doubles the total capacity of the substation for local residents,” and it marks “a key milestone in the company’s ongoing investment in a smarter, more reliable energy network for thousands of residents in the East Ham and Barking area.” UK Power Networks project manager Awaise Umar said: “This £15.6M investment is a pivotal step towards ensuring a more resilient and efficient energy network for East London." Clancy site manager Tony Campbell said: “This upgrade demonstrates the power of effective partnership in strengthening vital community infrastructure. “Working closely with UK Power Networks, our teams navigated complex engineering challenges and delivered enhanced capacity for East London." https://lnkd.in/e6jWvuS5

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💧💷 Thames Water: £5 Billion AMP8/9 Major Projects Framework Tender Launched 💧💷 Thames Water has officially gone out to tender for its AMP8/9 Major Projects Framework, a huge opportunity valued at £5 billion (inc VAT). The framework will drive delivery of major works, asset upgrades, and long-term partnerships across the company’s operational regions. 🤝 💷 Revised value: from £1bn to £5bn (inc VAT) 📅 Contract period: 2026–2030, with possible extension to 2035 (AMP9) 🏗 Scope: major works, asset upgrades, goods & services to support AMP8 delivery 📑 Up to 8 suppliers to be appointed following competitive tender 📊 Evaluation focus: capability, supply chain strength, H&S, sustainability, innovation 📝 Deadline for requests to participate: 15 October 2025, 10:00am ------------------------------- Thames Water expects to award the framework in March 2026, setting the stage for one of the UK water sector’s biggest procurement programmes of the coming decade. 📅 ------------------------------- This £5bn programme is set to transform how Thames Water delivers capital projects, spanning water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades, resilience works, environmental improvements, and critical network assets. 💧 Click the link in the comments to access the PSQ documents. 🔗 #waterindustry #watertreatment #wastewater #amp8 #amp9 #investment #tenderrelease #meicahub #grs

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National Grid names contractors for £8bn substation drive National Grid has selected seven contractors for its £8bn Electricity Transmission Partnership. National Grid's 400kV Sandford substation, built as part of the Hinkley connection project Balfour Beatty plc, Burns & McDonnell, Linxon, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, M Group Energy, Murphy and OTW (a joint venture of Omexom and Taylor Woodrow) have been chosen to deliver £8bn worth of substation #infrastructure across #England and #Wales over the next five years for #NationalGrid. The Electricity Transmission Partnership (ETP) is a new way of working for National Grid, following on from the Great Grid Partnership it announced in May 2024. The initiative awards regional exclusivity of substation work to ETP contractors based on how well they perform and their commitment to expanding their capacity. The aim is to strengthen the UK supply chain, encourage long term investment and support the development of local skills and capability, National Grid said. Around 130 projects are expected to be procured through the ETP. It also marks a major boost to National Grid’s RIIO-T3 investment plan, which proposes up to £35bn investment in the transmission network in England and Wales over the five years to March 2031, including to build new substations or upgrade existing ones. Balfour Beatty has been allocated the northeast region, Morgan Sindall the northwest, Murphy southwest (region one) and London & southeast region, M Group Energy for southwest (region two) and OTW has the central west region The contractors will have first refusal of future substation work in the pipeline in their region. Two national suppliers, Linxon and Burns & McDonnell, will support delivery of substation work that falls outside the scope of the regional partners’ portfolios. The ETP complements other pioneering initiatives in National Grid’s evolving supply chain ecosystem, including the Great Grid Partnership (GGP) and a new high voltage direct current (HVDC) supply chain framework. Together, these programmes are designed to provide greater capacity and resilience across multiple infrastructure construction portfolios. National Grid said that the ETP model has the potential to be expanded beyond substations in future to include other network infrastructure. Alice Delahunty FREng, president of National Grid Electricity Transmission, said: “Our Electricity Transmission Partnership marks a bold shift in how we deliver vital electricity infrastructure. By adopting a regional, long term approach, we’re giving our supply chain the certainty to invest in people, skills and innovation. It’s a key step in turning our RIIO-T3 investment ambitions into action and building a resilient grid to support Britain’s clean energy future.” https://lnkd.in/eqx-wtSP

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Plans for another Data Centre development in the UK.. 🚀 Deep Green have submitted plans for a new facility on Listerhills Road, Bradford 🏗️ The site’s currently vacant — with the Data Centre aimed to support AI, data analytics, and computational modelling. Decision expected in October ⏳ Full story in the comments 👇

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