Spotlight: UK solar output reaches a record 15GW amid ministerial push for energy sovereignty and the IHRB publishes report on the hidden costs of community conflict for renewable projects

ENERGY

🗣️ The Hidden Bill of Green Conflict: Derisking Renewable Energy by Strengthening Community Trust | The Institute for Human Rights and Business

📰 Renewable energy will boost national security and protect UK from sabotage, minister says | The Guardian

📰 UK solar generation hits record 15 GW as gas falls to historic low | PV Magazine International

📰 GB clean power hinges on fixing grid connections | renews

📰 German energy group Eon nears £600mn deal to buy UK supplier Ovo | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 Good news and bad news: Our Breaking the Link campaign is working – but we need to go further | ecotricity

🗣️ Energy Reform Must Go Further | British Chambers of Commerce

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ Railway sets course for AI on journey to Great British Railways | National Rail

✒️ London Councils and Mayor unveil new London Infrastructure Framework to drive growth | London Councils

📰 New approach needed to plug £345bn 'infrastructure funding gap' | Utility Week (paywall)

📰 UK moves to strengthen sovereignty over critical AI infrastructure | Digital Watch Observatory

📰 AI data centre emissions vastly underestimated, UK admits | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 Can the UK's data centre boom go green? | Business Green (paywall)

📰 Calls for infrastructure commitments ahead of Scottish Parliament election | New civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Why Decade-Long Investment Timelines Are Returning to Infrastructure Finance | International Business Times UK

✒️ Global infrastructure spending to top $150 trillion through 2050 | Press release from PwC

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ Make home buying easier - Housing Committee Chair calls on the government to reduce delays and lower costs | Letter from Florence Eshalomi MP, Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee to Matthew Pennycook MP

🗣️ Stalled projects and global instability: a double whammy for UK architects | Architects’ Journal

📰 New partnership model could fund extra 18,500 affordable homes per year, L&G white paper finds | Inside Housing (paywall)

📰 Taylor Wimpey profits dented by falling house prices and rising costs | Times (paywall)

📰 Penalise councils for planning delays, Lidl urges Labour | The Telegraph (paywall)

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