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The chief executive of Drax, Dorothy Thompson, says the Government’s latest biomass subsidy rules make it very hard for her to make the case to investors to fund the company’s £2 billion biomass plans.

The company behind plans for a £2 billion coal-fired power plant in Scotland has received support from the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) despite a rising tide of opposition from groups worried about pollution, wildlife and tourism.

The chief executive of the Association of Electricity Producers has welcomed a vote by the European Parliament to extend the deadline for power plants to comply with air pollution targets from 2016 to 2019.

Fighting to keep funding for rail services in London is essentially a fight for securing the economy of the entire country.

Network Rail major programme director for Crossrail Robbie Burns is under no illusions as the size of the task facing the industry as a whole.

The coalition Government’s backing of the £40 billion new nuclear build programme in the UK is the news energy firms had been waiting to hear.

EDF Energy’s director of planning and external affairs Richard Mason is preparing to present updated plans to minimise the community impact of building new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Few trends which began in the seventies have aged well. But GC/Works/1, a contract launched in 1973, and not updated since 2000, has recently been making itself known again even after NEC3 was endorsed by OGC for use by the public sector and chosen by the UK Olympic Delivery Authority. By…