Every inch of Shanghai real estate is valuable and that goes for the unused land beneath the pylons carrying the city's electricity. It's a no-go zone for housing, commercial use and manufacturing. It needn't be an eyesore and a junk yard. Minhang District, mindful of real estate value, has created three public gardens in the…

Bill Bryson has joined the debate about plans to put more pylons in the Snowdonia National Park and other Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty as reported in this Daily Telegraph article.    There are two issues here.  Where electricity needs to be routed through a national park there is a strong case for buried cables. Although…

According to this Guardian article, the cost of linking new wind turbines and nuclear power stations to the National Grid will be about £4.7bn.  The National Grid themselves quote a figure of £9bn for the cost of changes to the network.  More on this story here from businessGreen and the Daily Telegraph.