Spotlight: Ed Miliband doubles down on clean energy, announcing the use of public land, faster grid connections and plans to decouple power prices while Sovereign AI gets £500 million investment and Peers add 'brownfield first' amendment

ENERGY

🗣️The era of clean energy security | Ed Miliband at the Good Growth Foundation’s National Growth Debate

📰Ed Miliband to 'double down not back down’ on clean energy push | Energy Voice (paywall)

📰UK to streamline planning rules to unlock grid infrastructure | edie

📰National template drives unified approach to local energy planning | Energy Live News

📰Ofgem, DESNZ issue grid connection update as BESS oversupply causes concern | Solar Power Portal

📰Energy demand falls globally as solar boom continues | Energy Live News

📰Solar 'leads global energy supply growth' | renews

📰DESNZ to increase renewables windfall tax to 55% in July 2026 | Solar Power Portal

🗣️ Windfarm development on protected peatland | House of Commons, Westminster Hall Debate

🗣️ Impact of the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan upon rural communities | House of Lords, Westminster Hall Debate

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️AI firms pioneering drug discovery, cheaper supercomputing and more get first backing through UK’s Sovereign AI | Press release from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, The Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP and The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP

🗣️Tech Secretary launches Sovereign AI | Speech from The Rt Hon Liz Kendall

📰Global coalition launched to investigate how data centres can be made greener | Building Design

📰UK HPC data centre cuts emissions by 75% with renewables | Innovation News Network

📰‘Dramatic’ increase in data centre developers wanting gas grid connections | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰Don’t demonise data centres. Without them, Britain grinds to a halt | The Telegraph (paywall)

🗣️Future of Hammersmith Bridge | House of Commons, Westminster Hall Debate

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DEVELOPMENT

📰 Creating communities in the next generation of new towns | PBC Today

📰 Brent Cross Town secures £188.7m refinancing of first BTR assets | Property Week

📰 Sixth Street launches £1bn affordable housing partnership | BE News

📰 Developers backpedal on labs in London | Estates Gazette (paywall)

📰 Housebuilding stocks recover as industry reaches ‘rock bottom’ | City AM

📰 Consequences of reform: A slower, defensive planning system | PBC Today

📰 Peers add ‘brownfield first’ and agent of change amendments to devolution bill as it returns to Commons | Planning Resource (paywall)