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AQUIND Interconnector
The AQUIND Interconnector is a proposed high-voltage direct current, HVDC submarine power cable proposed to link France and England. Independent research carried out in Portsmouth by Savanta suggests public support for a new transmission link between Portsmouth and Normandy. These results were reported in a number of Energy industry publications in 2024. However there was also considerable local opposition to the specific route and overall proposal https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/people/stop-aquind-campaign-at-critical-moment-as-6200-signature-petition-submitted-3383207 The project has faced local opposition and attracted controversy due to claims regarding its environmental impact and links between the company's backers and the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. A decision on the project is currently awaited from the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Under the previous Government, the project was refused by then Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Fedotov
Viktor Fedotov () is a Russian-British businessman. He was a vice-president of Lukoil in 1990-1998 and headed a number of other companies in the Russian oil industry, including the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. He is now the majority owner of Aquind, a company that plans to build a HVDC submarine power cable that would link France and England. Aquind donated more than £1 million to the Conservative Party. After Fedotov's link with Aquind was discovered, the Conservative Party was criticised for accepting these donations by Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, and by Conservative MPs. According to the Guardian, documents from Pandora Papers suggest that he was one of the owners of the Russian company VNIIST and "made at least $98m from an offshore financial structure that appears to have funnelled profits from VNIIST via multiple tax havens." Fedotov owns a £7 million house in Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proposed Electric Power Infrastructure In The United Kingdom
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Proposed Electric Power Transmission Systems
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Electrical Interconnectors To And From Great Britain
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwell's equations. Common phenomena are related to electricity, including lightning, static electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. The presence of either a positive or negative electric charge produces an electric field. The motion of electric charges is an electric current and produces a magnetic field. In most applications, Coulomb's law determines the force acting on an electric charge. Electric potential is the work done to move an electric charge from one point to another within an electric field, typically measured in volts. Electricity plays a central role in many modern technologies, serving in electric power where electric current is used to energise equipment, and in electronics dealing with electrical c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agency For The Cooperation Of Energy Regulators
The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) is an Agency of the European Union created under the terms of the Third Energy Package of 2009. It was established in 2010 and has its seat in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The basis for the establishment of ACER is Regulation 713/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council of 13 July 2009. The regulation describes the establishment and the legal status, tasks, organisation, and financial provisions. It was reestablished in 2019 by directive (EU) 2019/942 ACER is the second intergovernmental organization headquartered in Slovenia. The first was the International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE). Tasks The Agency: * complements and coordinates the work of national regulatory authorities, * participates in the creation of European network rules, * takes, under certain conditions, binding individual decisions on terms and conditions for access and operational security for cross border infrastructure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Court Of The European Union
The General Court, informally known as the European General Court (EGC), is a constituent court of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It hears actions taken against the institutions of the European Union by individuals and member states, although certain matters are reserved for the European Court of Justice. Decisions of the General Court can be appealed to the Court of Justice, but only on a point of law. Prior to the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009, it was known as the Court of First Instance. Competence The General Court hears disputes (such as those by persons who have been refused a trade mark by EUIPO, the EU Trade Mark and designs registry). The creation of the General Court instituted a judicial system based on two levels of jurisdiction: all cases heard at first instance by the General Court may be subject to a right of appeal to the Court of Justice on points of law only. In view of the increasing number of cases brought before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brexit Transition Period
The Brexit withdrawal agreement, officially titled Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, is a treaty between the European Union (EU), Euratom, and the United Kingdom (UK), signed on 24 January 2020, setting the terms of the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and Euratom. The text of the treaty was published on 17 October 2019, and is a renegotiated version of an agreement published in November 2018. The earlier version of the withdrawal agreement was rejected by the House of Commons on three occasions, leading to the resignation of Theresa May as Prime Minister and the appointment of Boris Johnson as the new prime minister on 24 July 2019. The Parliament of the United Kingdom gave its approval to the agreement on 23 January 2020 and the UK government deposited Britain's instrument of ratification on 29 January 2020. The agreement was ratified by the Council of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office Of Gas And Electricity Markets
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) is the government regulator for the electricity and downstream natural gas markets in Great Britain. It was formed by the merger of the Office of Electricity Regulation (OFFER) and Office of Gas Supply (Ofgas). Ofgem's governing body is the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (GEMA), which is also referred to as the Ofgem board. Powers and duties The authority's powers and duties are largely provided for in statute (such as the Gas Act 1986, the Electricity Act 1989, the Utilities Act 2000, the Competition Act 1998, the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Energy Act 2004, the Energy Act 2008 and the Energy Act 2010) as well as arising from directly effective European Union legislation. Duties and functions concerning gas are set out in the Gas Act and those relating to electricity are set out in the Electricity Act. Its primary duty is to protect the interests of consumers, where possible by promoting competition. The Authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Mordaunt
Dame Penelope Mary "Penny" Mordaunt (; born 4 March 1973) is a British former Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who served as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from 2022 until 2024. She was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North from 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 to 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024. She ran twice for the Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative party leadership in July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, July–September and October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, October 2022, losing to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, respectively. In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election, Mordaunt lost her Portsmouth North seat to Labour's Amanda Martin. Mordaunt read philosophy at the University of Reading, before working in the public relations industry. She held roles under Leader of the Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of State For Trade Policy
The Minister of State for Trade Policy and Economic Security, formerly Minister of State for Trade Policy and Minister of State for Trade, is a mid-level role at the Department for Business and Trade in the Government of the United Kingdom. It is currently held by Douglas Alexander, who took the office on 6 July 2024. From 2016 to February 2023, the role was based in the Department for International Trade. History Although a Minister of State position, it was considered to be one of the most important jobs outside Cabinet rank as when Douglas Alexander became Minister of State for Trade in September 2004, he was given a special provision to attend the Cabinet meetings. The subsequent role of Minister of State for Investment was created in 2021. The minister formerly worked at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for International Trade. List of ministers Minister of State for Investmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wharton, Baron Wharton Of Yarm
James Stephen Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm (born 16 February 1984) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for his home constituency of Stockton South from the 2010 general election, until losing his seat in the 2017 general election. Wharton was appointed Minister for the Northern Powerhouse after his re-election in 2015 and moved to a ministerial position in the Department for International Development by Theresa May in 2016. In September 2020, he took his seat as a member of the House of Lords, taking the title Baron Wharton of Yarm. Early life James Wharton grew up in Wolviston, County Durham. He was educated at two private schools: Yarm School and St Peter's School, York. He then studied law at Durham University, and was a member of the Officers' Training Corps (OTC) (part of the Northumbrian UOTC). He was Race Awareness Officer at the Durham Students' Union for the 2003/2004 academic year. He also became President of the Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
