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The roll-out of public EV chargers gathered pace in the first half of 2025, with 8,670 new charge points.

Heathrow is mulling legal action against National Grid after it was found that the blaze that shut the airport was first flagged as a risk in 2018.

Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24bn investment plan that will launch the biggest upgrade of the high-voltage electricity grid since the 1960s.

The Government has opted against financially backing an interconnector that would connect the UK and Morocco.

High-efficiency industrial heat pumps – fired by renewable electricity – could redefine factory heat and carbon costs, says Gauthier Bechet.

UK Power Networks has unveiled a fleet of nine hybrid battery-engine generators that promise to slash carbon emissions and noise pollution.

DPD has unveiled a £330 million plan to build seven fully automated, EV-ready distribution centres.

The UK Government has pinned its hopes of economic revival onto the electricity network, with manufacturers set to see energy bill reductions.

UK Power Networks has begun reinforcing thousands of aging wooden electricity poles with steel support trusses.

National Grid Electricity Distribution is investing more than £200,000 in a research programme at the University of Bath to make the grid more 'agile'.