United Kingdom: Oil, Gas & Electricity

The UK's clean energy transition is accelerating with renewable capacity coming online at scale, but the gap between political ambition and commercial reality is creating complex legal challenges for businesses and investors building, financing and acquiring clean energy assets. Three structural shifts—electric vehicle adoption, data centre expansion, and battery storage maturation—are simultaneously driving demand...

Matt Grimwood and John Howells from Newmark explore the explosive growth of the UK data centre sector, examining how power availability, grid capacity constraints...

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Great Britain's data centre development pipeline is expanding rapidly, driven by artificial intelligence and hyperscaler growth. Ofgem has launched a consultation on proposed connection reforms aimed at distinguishing viable projects from speculative ones through new commitment fees and queue management milestones. These reforms could require developers of large-scale projects to secure substantial upfront financial commitments and demonstrate credible end-users and technical capability at specific stages.

Great Britain's electricity demand connection queue has surged from 41 GW to 125 GW in just five months, driven largely by data centre applications accounting for 75 GW. Ofgem and NESO have launched consultations proposing significant reforms including a Data Centre Commitment Fee and new project progression milestones to eliminate speculative projects and ensure viable developments can progress efficiently.

Leading M&A experts from McCarthy Tétrault, Sullivan & Cromwell, and White & Case examine how electricity demand, AI infrastructure, and energy security are fundamentally reshaping capital deployment strategies across infrastructure and energy sectors. The discussion explores where investors are finding the most compelling opportunities as the energy transition evolves beyond decarbonisation into a broader infrastructure buildout story.

Satisfying demand for dispatchable baseload power generation is a priority for governments. Even better if delivered via low carbon solutions. Hard-to-abate industries are also focusing on how to decarbonise their processes.

The UK's data centre landscape is shaped by a complex interplay of technical requirements, economic factors, and strategic considerations.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that knowledge of an individual's inclusion on an insider list can itself constitute inside information...