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Sharpe Pritchard LLP has appointed Victoria Heald-Barraclough as Partner, strengthening its ability to support capital providers, developers and public-sector partners on the financing and delivery of complex green and regulated infrastructure. The appointment highlights Shape Pritchard’s focus on supporting the most innovative projects where capital meets green. Sharpe Pritchard’s focus is to help investors, lenders,…

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Sharpe Pritchard has launched Sharpe Pritchard Renew, a dedicated energy and renewables legal offering designed to support the deployment of private capital into energy infrastructure. The launch builds on the firm’s long-standing position at the centre of public sector infrastructure and regulation, and reflects a clear strategic focus, applying that expertise to the investors, developers…

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Great British Energy and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero have unveiled the Local Power Plan — up to £1 billion in funding for what they describe as the UK’s “largest public investment in community energy”. Sophie Read explains the details.    Introduction Great British Energy (GBE) and the Department for Energy Security and... Read more

Author: Kamran Zaheer On 4th March 2026, the European Commission is expected to table a proposal titled the “Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA)”. The IAA is an EU industrial policy measure aimed at accelerating the build out of clean industrial capacity and reducing strategic dependencies in key net-zero value chains. In practice it is expected to…

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Author: Bridget Newman, Associate at Sharpe Pritchard The UK government has recently published a National Security Assessment on Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security (Report), analysing biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation within a national security framework. Government Report Findings The Report assesses, with high analytical confidence, that biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation threaten... Read more

Author: Nimoy Kher, Managing Associate On 21 January 2026 the Government published the Warm Homes Plan – a sweeping £15 billion programme to upgrade Britain’s homes, cut bills, grow clean energy markets, and accelerate the shift away from fossil-fuel heating. It is the largest home-upgrade investment in UK history. In this article, we take you…

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