Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’), has committed £75 million to TrueSpeed Communications Limited (“TrueSpeed”) to support the roll out of TrueSpeed’s ultrafast full fibre broadband network across South West England. Established in 2015 to deliver a fibre-optic infrastructure network across South West England, TrueSpeed [...]

Russian gas producer Novatek is expected to select Italy's Saipem to build offshore platforms for its second liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in the Arctic, four sources said. Novatek is aiming to produce as much LNG as the world's biggest exporter Qatar and is drawing up plans to build a [...]

A £2bn offshore windfarm in Scotland looks set to go ahead after the RSPB lost a long-running legal challenge against the plans, which the conservationists said threatened puffins, gannets and kittiwakes. The Scottish government gave its consent to four major windfarms in the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay in 2014, [...]

Openreach has finally started removing BT's logo from its 22,000 vans, "unveiling its new branding" four months after the former UK state monopoly agreed to a legal separation of its broadband division. The changes will begin this month and continue over the next four years on all vehicles, customer-facing websites and apps, [...]

The government has launched its latest initiative to tackle connectivity across the UK by offering up £400 million for full fibre broadband across the country. It’s a nice number to parade around, but why has it taken so long for the UK to wake up to the benefits of a [...]

Last year the Government committed £400m of public money to support a new Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, which has today gone live. The new fund could help to support alternative network ISPs in deploying ultrafast broadband FTTH/P networks to 2 million extra UK premises. The Government hopes that the new fund, [...]

Statoil has shared a great video showing the mating of one of Hywind Scotland’s Siemens 6MW turbines with its SPAR-type floating foundation off Stord, Norway. The video shows the semi-submersible crane vessel Saipem 7000 lifting one of the five pre-assembled turbines and transporting it to the verticalized foundation. The turbines will lie [...]

WINDTHORST, TX (KAUZ) - Crews are still investigating what caused a wind turbine to collapse in Windthorst last Friday. The wind turbine came crashing down just outside the town on Oliver Wells Road. No one and no livestock was harmed by the turbine. Paul Rapp, Vice President of Development for Alterra Power [...]

A new agreement ensures that in future, Asnæs Power Station will supply green energy to Novo Nordisk, Novozymes and district heating customers in Kalundborg. The conversion of Asnæs Power Station provides a CO reduction corresponding to the annual emissions from approximately 400,000 cars. With a new 20-year agreement recently concluded [...]

Ofcom is seeking to open up competition in the city’s broadband by investigating KCOM's dominant position in the market. The communications regulator has published a report in which it identified a number of “potential competition concerns”. These include KCOM charging “excessive wholesale prices” that could have prevented customers from buying [...]

The Liverpool City Council has kept the expansion of Virgin Media’s ultrafast cable broadband and TV network on hold since February 2017 because of “serious issues” (damage to highways, poor reinstatement, site safety etc.) with the street works being conducted by contractors. At present the cable operator is spending around £3bn [...]

Ineos has announced plans to build a new European petrochemical production plant and boost capacity at plants in Scotland and Norway at a cost of about two billion euros (£1.8bn). The plans include a new propylene production unit, with sites in Belgium among locations being considered. It also plans to [...]