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The Wire Tuesday 10 November |
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The Wire · Tuesday 10 November Good morning. Here is today's Energy & Infrastructure news. 👇 |
Six 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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 Renewables · Solar Energy Scotland · 10 November 2026
Poll finds most Scots support solar farms and battery storage
A poll of 1,035 Scottish adults carried out for Solar Energy Scotland found 43% support solar farms near their home against 22% opposed, and 70% back solar panels on public buildings. The group is calling for a national target of 9 gigawatts of solar by 2035 and for new build homes to be required to have solar panels.
| | Our read Industry now has a public opinion case to set against the loudest local objections it tends to face at planning committees. |
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 Energy & Grid · BAM UK & Ireland · 9 November 2026
BAM wins contract for southern end of new Scotland-England power cable
National Grid has appointed BAM UK & Ireland to build the southern converter station for Eastern Green Link 3, a planned 2GW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link between Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and Walpole in Norfolk, jointly developed with SSEN Transmission. BAM already holds the contract for the project's northern converter station near Peterhead, with Mott MacDonald as lead civil and structural designer.
| | Our read It gives BAM continuity across both ends of one of the grid's biggest point-to-point transmission links. That is the kind of track record contractors will want to point to as more HVDC projects move into construction. |
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Energy & Grid · Offshore Energies UK · 9 November 2026
UK offshore energy companies warn of £123 billion funding gap
Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), in its 2026 Supply Chain report, surveyed 60 companies and found only 35% confident in their UK business outlook over the next 12 months, with eight in ten expecting a greater share of future growth to come from overseas. The trade body said £123 billion of potential UK offshore energy capital investment between 2026 and 2035 is not yet guaranteed, and called on government for more certainty on regulation, taxation and approvals.
| | Our read Ministers have heard this complaint before; now it comes with a number attached. Supply chain investment follows the clearest regulatory and tax signals, wherever in the world they come from. |
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Energy & Grid · techUK · 9 November 2026
Tech industry body wants new energy costs paid by taxes, not bills
techUK, the technology industry's trade body, published analysis of the Energy Independence Bill. It said reformed national energy pricing could deliver up to £20 billion in benefits between 2030 and 2050. Raising low voltage network use by one percentage point, it said, could avoid £240 million to £571 million of network investment by 2050. It called a proposed hydrogen-to-power bill levy "incredibly disappointing", and said any such levies should be funded through taxation rather than bills.
| | Our read techUK is one of several industry voices now pushing to keep new energy costs off household bills, a sign of how contested that question has become as the Bill moves through Parliament. |
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 Water · Uisce Éireann · 9 November 2026
Uisce Éireann's €29.5 million plant upgrade to benefit Dungarvan
Uisce Éireann said network works are under way at Ballinamuck Water Treatment Plant as part of a €29.5 million upgrade intended to benefit water supply for Dungarvan and the surrounding area. A planned supply interruption ran in Dungarvan and Abbeyside from 6pm on 9 November to 9am on 10 November, with night time restrictions following in Abbeyside, Duckspool, Ballinroad and Ballinacourty.
| | Our read A scheme of this size for one treatment plant shows how costly it can be just to keep existing infrastructure ahead of a growing town, without building anything new. |
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 Rail · Department for Transport · 9 November 2026
Veterans' rail discount set to become a legal right as government amends Railways Bill
The Department for Transport announced a government amendment to the Railways Bill placing the one third rail fare discount for veterans and service personnel into statute for the first time. The department linked the change to the planned creation of Great British Railways, and noted free rail travel was recently extended to bereaved military family members attending Remembrance events.
| | Our read Writing the discount into law rather than policy guidance means a future government cannot quietly drop it without changing the statute, something a minister could have done with a stroke of the pen under the old guidance. |
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