Setting up any business is no mean feat – but one that plans to go from zero to gigafactory-scale in less than five years is quite an undertaking. This is exactly what UK battery start-up Volklec has set out to do.

While electrification marches onwards, it depends on having the infrastructure in place. And our transmission network is struggling to keep pace.

The transition to electricity has added impetus towards a net zero approach. Historically one of the big criticisms of plans to reduce greenhouse gases was that the road map to get there was sufficiently vague and non-committal that actual action was always a can that could be kicked down the road. And while recent COPs have again replaced specifics with aspiration, the majority of the world is making steps in the right direction.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and engineering services company Mott MacDonald have published a new independent report comparing the costs and characteristics of installing high-voltage electricity transmission lines overground, underground and subsea.

An International Energy Association report expects demand from AI data centres to triple by 2030.

The cost of fusion technology is likely to fall more slowly than previously predicted, raising doubts about its ability to compete with renewable energy.

The UK government has announced it will expand the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme to cover 10,000 electricity-intensive manufacturing businesses from 2027.

Government-owned firm UK Fusion Energy (UKFE) has unveiled a strategy setting out how the country can move fusion energy from research to commercial deployment.

The government has been urged to decouple the price of UK electricity from gas – which typically commands the highest cost per MW – to save households around £203 per year on energy bills.

Small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid contrails could reduce aviation’s global warming impact by nearly half, according to a study.

The International Energy Agency has proposed that member countries release emergency oil stocks in order to counter price shocks.

Donald Trump has ordered the US military to purchase energy from coal-fired power plants in a bid to shore up the flagging domestic industry.

Capturing and reusing the heat generated by industry could boost the UK’s competitiveness, according to the Royal Society.

The government’s climate advisers have criticised the way in which blast furnaces at the Port Talbot steelworks were closed, arguing that not enough regard was given to economic impact on the local area.

Like many sectors, the industrial sector faces challenges in attracting and retaining talent. Aurelien Le Sant, CTO for industrial automation at Schneider Electric, looks at how increased automation and digitisation are key to solving these challenges.

Construction equipment giant JCB has signed a memorandum of understanding for the supply of low-carbon steel from Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant.

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to outline the government’s plans to buttress the UK’s cyber defences this week, as he announces the conclusions of its 'Integrated Review' of foreign, defence, security and development policy.

Brexit day is upon us but EU plans to move on without the UK are coming in thick and fast. The latest has 6G, cheaper medicines, low-carbon tech and domination of the microelectronics market in its sights.

The Industrial Strategy white paper contains a pledge of around £12.5 billion in public research and development funding and comes as a leading life sciences company announces a new British hub.

For the first time, Blue Origin has successfully landed its New Glenn booster rocket, which had been flown on a prior mission, but the satellite payload that came with it was shunted into an incorrect orbit.

The EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions have now fallen by 40% since 1990, according to official data.

Relocating Venice to a new site has been mooted as one possible option to protect it from rising sea levels as the increasing number of flooding events threaten to overwhelm the city’s infrastructure.

A portable atomic clock that has been successfully tested at sea could change the future of marine navigation.

An International Energy Association report expects demand from AI data centres to triple by 2030.

Tim Cook is to resign as Apple CEO, with head of hardware engineering John Ternus succeeding him on 1 September.

A 1.19km-long bridge that will exclusively serve pedestrians, cyclists and trams has been opened in Helsinki.

The cost of fusion technology is likely to fall more slowly than previously predicted, raising doubts about its ability to compete with renewable energy.