Hinkley connection completes T-pylon wiring

National Grid has completed the installation of overhead conductors on all 116 T-pylons for the Hinkley Connection Project

Pipeline to UK’s largest LPG storage facility given go-ahead

Flogas Britains has been granted planning permission to build a gas pipeline from Bristol Port to LPG storage terminal at Avonmouth

Viridor opens £317m Avonmouth plastics recycling and energy recovery plant

The facility near Bristol has the capacity to process 1.6 billion items of plastic and divert around 320,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste from landfill every year

New 32MW battery storage plant fired up near Bristol

Voltalia commissioned the Hallen Battery Energy Storage Scheme, which released its first kWh of electricity on 23rd December 2021

Four people die after explosion at sewage plant near Bristol

Avon and Somerset Police said three Wessex Water employees and one contractor were killed

Major incident declared after large chemical tank explosion at sewage works in Bristol

The police confirmed there has been a number of casualties as a result of the explosion

Bristol Council celebrates record solar generation

The Avonmouth solar park generated enough electricity between May and July to power around 257 homes a year

UK’s Avonmouth LNG storage site to stop operations

A Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) storage facility near Briston is to permanently stop operational activity in the next two months. National Grid LNG Storage made the announcement to end operations at the Avonmouth facility from 30th April following a stakeholder consultation. The facility was built in the 1970s and 1980s with the original purpose of […]

Bristol waves forward two wind turbines

The home of the Clifton Suspension Bridge (pictured) has plans to be the greenest city in Europe – and to help it win that accolade, Bristol City Council has signed a contract for two wind turbines. This brings the UK’s first local authority-run wind farm a step closer. The two turbines will be located on […]