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The Wire · Monday 9 November Good morning. Here is today's Energy & Infrastructure news. 👇 |
Ten items overnight, every one dated, opened at the primary source and checked before it went in, with our read on each. Three minutes with your coffee and you are up to speed. |
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Diesel 198.6p ↓ 0.6p | Brent $98 ↑ | Power £210 ↑ £5 | CPIH 3.6% ↑ 0.3 | Bank Rate 4.0% ↑ 0.25 | GBP/USD $1.34 ↓ $0.01 |
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 Water · Uisce Éireann · 8 November 2026
Burst water main disrupts supply across Leixlip, Maynooth and Celbridge
Uisce Éireann crews are responding to a burst water main in Leixlip, Co. Kildare, which may affect supply to Leixlip, Maynooth, Celbridge and surrounding areas. The utility expected repair works to continue until early afternoon on 8 November.
| | Our read That one burst main can knock out three towns at once shows how thin the margins still are once you're outside the big cities. |
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 Military & Defence · Rolls-Royce Submarines · 6 November 2026
Rolls-Royce Submarines partners with manufacturer INFINITY in Derby expansion
Rolls-Royce Submarines has partnered with INFINITY to add large-scale prototyping, hot isostatic pressing, power-beam welding and additive manufacturing at INFINITY's technology park in Derby, next to Rolls-Royce's Nuclear Skills Academy. The companies say the move supports the Astute and Dreadnought submarine build programmes and the AUKUS partnership, with around 17,500 jobs linked to the site.
| | Our read The deal brings heavy manufacturing onto Rolls-Royce's own doorstep in Derby, another sign that building the submarine programme at home is winning out over buying it in from abroad. |
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 Energy & Grid · Electricity North West · 6 November 2026
£7 million Ofgem-funded trial to warm Greater Manchester terrace homes
Electricity North West and Greater Manchester Combined Authority will trial a "Net Zero Terrace" scheme in Middleton, funded with £7 million from Ofgem's Strategic Innovation Fund. The trial is due to run from December 2026 to August 2030.
| | Our read The trial's real value is its four-year run time, long enough to show whether terrace retrofits can be repeated street by street rather than house by house. |
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 Transport · Logistics UK · 6 November 2026
Logistics UK calls for more investment in workforce skills training
Logistics UK has called for greater collaboration and long-term government support to help employers invest in workforce development, following its "Learning to Lead" round table. The body cites Learning and Work Institute research suggesting more than three million more adults would take up training with consistent engagement.
| | Our read The skills gap argument is familiar from the trade body, but putting a number on it gives ministers something more concrete to respond to than a general plea. |
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 Rail · Network Rail · 6 November 2026
Batley station gains step-free access under Transpennine Route Upgrade
Batley station in West Yorkshire now has step-free access to all platforms, delivered as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade. Network Rail says the upgrade scheme is projected to create more than 8,000 jobs over its lifetime.
| | Our read Each finished station gives the upgrade a visible win, which matters given how often its budget has made headlines for the wrong reasons. |
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 Flood & Coastal · Environment Agency · 6 November 2026
Flood defences finished early at Severn Stoke
The Environment Agency has completed a flood risk scheme costing around £5.25 million at Severn Stoke in Worcestershire, finishing ahead of its winter schedule. Worcestershire County Council and contractor Alun Griffiths Construction built a new flood bank to protect homes along the River Severn.
| | Our read Worcestershire County Council put in £250,000 on top of the Environment Agency's approximately £5 million. |
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Energy & Grid · SSEN Transmission · 6 November 2026
Moray substation approved to connect wind and battery projects
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Moray Council has unanimously approved planning permission for SSEN Transmission's new 275/33kV Corshellach substation, to be built next to the existing Berryburn substation around 12km south of Forres. The substation will connect the Cairn Duhie wind farm and the Corshellach battery storage project to the grid.
| | Our read Neither the wind farm nor the battery site could connect to the grid without this substation being built first. |
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Energy & Grid · SSEN Transmission · 6 November 2026
Construction begins on Western Isles grid link
SSEN Transmission has marked the official start of construction on the Lewis Hub, which will give the Western Isles their first direct transmission connection to mainland Great Britain, with capacity for up to 1.8GW. Contractor RJ McLeod is carrying out the main civil works.
| | Our read The ceremony was held at Arnish Moor, near Stornoway, where the project's new converter station and substation will be built. |
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Energy & Grid · SSEN Transmission · 6 November 2026
Subsea power cable to Yorkshire marks two years of construction
SSEN Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission have marked two years of construction on EGL2, their £4.3 billion joint venture to lay a 505km high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable between Peterhead and Drax. The cable, the UK's longest subsea HVDC link, will carry 2GW of capacity when complete, enough for around two million homes.
| | Our read The cable's southern end lands at a new converter station at Wren Hall, near Drax, which turns the direct current back into the alternating current the grid uses. |
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Water · Barhale · 6 November 2026
Barhale nears finish on £6 million Worcester wastewater upgrade
Barhale has reached around 80% completion of the construction work on a £6 million pollution-prevention upgrade for Severn Trent at Worcester Wastewater Treatment Works, with the project expected to finish soon. The work covers six sludge tanks and seven anaerobic digesters, and included new monitoring equipment so the drainage network can be isolated quickly if a spill happens.
| | Our read Surveys for the scheme mapped 260 services running through the site, more than 100 of which had not been recorded before work began. |
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Monday · on the map
470 projects changed this week Great North Road Solar and Biodiversity Park (Renewables): Approved by the Energy Secretary on 27 October 2026 VodafoneThree £11bn network integration & 5G SA rollout (Digital & Telecoms): In deployment; Ericsson began rolling out VodafoneThree's 5G Core network (September 2026) Isambard-AI (Bristol) (Applied AI): Operational (core component of the AI Research Resource; launched July 2025) Dawn → Zenith (Cambridge) (Applied AI): Officially launched (University of Cambridge, 10 June 2026)
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