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Powering a UK–US energy partnership

Tom Mundy, NuScale Power CCO and UK Managing Director, talks about the company’s UK SMR offering.

The development of small modular reactors (SMRs) is regarded as crucial to the future of the nuclear industry. As the government sets out to make the UK a leader in SMR technology, two industry giants, NuScale Power and Rolls-Royce, share their big SMR plans with Energy Focus.

Powering a UK–US energy partnership

Doing business in Iran

For the last 10 years or so, UK companies have been unable to do much business in Iran as the country has been under extensive UN, US and EU sanctions.

EIC Middle East and North Africa Regional Analyst Fabrice Abalain provides a checklist of everything you need to know before going to Iran and where you’ll find the opportunities and how to do business once you’re there.

Doing business in Iran

It's time for the UK to become a nation of exporters

Britain has a leading global position in several key energy sectors, some of which are now reaching maturity.

UK-focused trade policy, a lower pound and a global switch to low carbon energy forms are opening new energy-related export opportunities for UK businesses. As the government urges companies to make 2017 the year of exporting, Energy Focus talks to new Minister for Investment Mark Garnier about the prospects for UK energy-related exports, and why now is the time for UK energy businesses to act.

It's time for the UK to become a nation of exporters

Special report: Evolving in the new energy era

Until very recently, governments and oil companies feared the prospect of peak oil, a time of expensive and declining supplies.

Nicholas Newman looks at how companies are adopting more creative strategies and more flexible business models to grow in a new dynamic energy market.

Evolving in the new energy era

The big question: how can companies working in the energy sector move into new markets

Danny Donald

Managing Director at Aiken Group

With Brexit fast approaching and the energy industry still facing tough times, we ask: How can supply chain companies widen their horizons? Energy Focus puts the big question to four members.

The Big Question

Overseas delegation to Uganda

Why attend? The EIC’s oil and gas trade delegation to Uganda will be led by Lord Popat, Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Uganda and Rwanda.

When: 20–24 November 2017

News & Events

My business: Martin Welsh, Booth Welsh

Can you tell us a little bit about Booth Welsh?

Energy Focus caught up with Managing Director Martin to find out what day-to-day life is like at Booth Welsh.

My Business: Martin Welsh, Booth Welsh

China and Taiwan delivering on Eastern promise

Although Europe remains the global leader in the offshore wind sector, having a total installed capacity of 12.6GW, Asia is catching up fast.

The EIC’s Amisha Patel analyses China and Taiwan’s offshore wind markets, both of which are keen to draw on the UK supply chain’s expertise.

China and Taiwan delivering on Eastern promise

A brighter future

Solar thermal electricity (STE), also known as concentrated solar power, is a carbon-free source of electricity best suited to areas with strong solar radiation including southern Europe, the Middl

Solar thermal electricity has the potential to meet the challenging demands of the changing global energy landscape, writes ESTELA’s Dr Luis Crespo.

A brighter future

Global nuclear prospects: bust or boom?

Nuclear energy plants currently supply about 11% of global electricity.

Worldwide nuclear energy is growing and industry prospects have been recovering ever since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. However, the current rate of expansion is nowhere near enough if we truly care about avoiding climate change and improving the lives of billions of people says David Hess at the World Nuclear Association.

Global nuclear prospects:bust or boom?
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