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PORT TALBOT: Government pays EY £1m to vet Tata’s plea for more furnace money

The UK Government is paying accountancy firm EY £1m to check Tata Steel‘s request for more public money to finish its new furnace in Port Talbot.

Known as an electric arc furnace, it melts scrap steel using electricity. It is the heart of the £1.25bn plan to keep steel being made at the Port Talbot works after the last blast furnace closed in 2024.

Tata says the furnace will be able to make 3.2 million tonnes of steel a year.

Sky News reported on Thursday that Tata’s request is understood to run to hundreds of millions of pounds, on top of the £500m the UK Government has already committed to the project.

The Government’s business department awarded EY the contract on 10 August, for “independent financial due diligence and commercial analysis”. It runs until August 2027.

Tender documents are reported to describe the work as supporting the Government’s assessment of Tata’s request for additional support for the furnace.

A grid connection running months late

The furnace was due to be making steel by early 2028. Then National Grid told Tata in June that the high-voltage connection it needs was running six to eight months late.

Tata is understood to now expect the furnace to be running in late 2028 or early 2029, and to have worked out that higher costs and lost sales from the delay will push the overall bill up significantly.

When the delay first surfaced, Stephen Kinnock, the Aberafan Maesteg MP who is now Secretary of State for Wales, said there was “no formal change in the timetable at this stage”.

Thousands of jobs already gone

The furnace plan was meant to protect 5,000 steel jobs across the UK, but around 2,500 are reported to have already gone in the switch.

Cheap imports have added to the pressure. Tata warned in June that the UK’s new import limits left Port Talbot exposed.

The furnace is also politically high-profile: Prime Minister Andy Burnham chose Port Talbot for his first official visit to Wales in August.

Ministers are not saying what they make of Tata’s request. The UK Government has declined to comment, saying any discussions with a private company “would be commercially sensitive”.

Tata bosses are reported to have confirmed last month that talks were under way.

Meanwhile, the first kit is arriving

On site, the work is moving. The first sections of the acid tanks for the line that cleans the surface of steel strip, known as a pickle line, arrived at the works this week, Tata says.

Each section weighs around 10 tonnes and came in through the Port of Sheerness. The company says they are the first of a growing number of major deliveries due over the coming weeks and months for both the pickle line and the furnace.

Mark Jones, from the pickle line project team, said: “It’s been a long, long time coming. We’ve been on the project now for around 18 months and it’s all been about the planning stage up until now.”

He said it was “the first time we’ve actually seen something happening from the mechanical aspect”.

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The import quotas Tata says do not go far enough.

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GREEN STEEL: Llanelli firm lands key contract on Port Talbot’s £1.25bn transformation — with work starting on site today

A Llanelli construction firm has landed a key contract on the £1.25bn transformation of Port Talbot steelworks — with work beginning on site today.

Morganstone, founded in Llanelli and now based in Swansea, will deliver the civil and structural package for the works’ new pickle line, winning the contract through a competitive tender.

It is the company’s first contract with Tata Steel — and its first step onto the biggest industrial site in Wales.

A pickle line cleans hot-rolled steel by submerging it in hydrochloric acid to strip away the scale that forms on its surface, preparing it for the mills that roll and coat the finished product. Tata has previously described the kit as the unsung hero of steelmaking.

The contract marks the shift from demolition and enabling works into the main construction phase on the line, which Tata broke ground on last autumn.

Andrew McGregor, programme manager for Project Invictus — Tata’s name for the transformation — said the appointment was a turning point for the project.

“This marks the start of the construction phase for the new Pickle Line project in Tata Steel UK. It’s a really positive feeling to know we are moving away from demolition and enabling works into construction,” he said.

He said the Morganstone contract covered the installation of the line’s process section, which is “on the critical path” because of the amount of structural steelwork to be installed on the new foundations — ultimately supporting the pickling and rinse tanks themselves.

“The team now continues to work on the remaining civil and structural packages, as there is no time to lose in placing the remaining contracts, with new Pickle Line equipment scheduled to start arriving imminently,” he added.

Mark Davies, who leads the civil and structural works on the project’s mills programme, said in a video published by Tata that securing “a regional contractor with a local workforce” had been important, with the foundation work for one zone of the new line sitting on the critical path.

He said Morganstone’s past projects, quality and programme — and the work ethic of its project management team through the tender — had stood out.

When ground was broken on the new line last September, it was slated to be in place during 2026 — with the main construction phase now only beginning.

The contract also comes weeks after fire damaged the works’ existing pickle line — which Morganstone’s managing director Andrew Pettigrew confirmed remains out of action — with Tata routing work to its Llanwern site while it recovers. The replacement line was planned long before the blaze.

Morganstone was founded in 2008 by Ian Morgan and has grown from its Dafen headquarters into one of Wales’ busier contractors — best known for housing and public buildings, from waterfront apartments at SA1 to the planned 186-home regeneration at Penplas.

Mr Morgan, the firm’s chairman, said: “We are delighted to have been appointed by Tata Steel UK to deliver this important project. The award reflects the capability, experience and commitment of our team and is a significant contract for Morganstone to be involved with.”

“We understand the importance of this project and look forward to working collaboratively with Tata Steel UK to deliver it safely, efficiently and to the highest standards,” he added.

Mr Pettigrew said the contract was one the firm had long chased.

“Working with Tata is something which we’ve been trying to get into for a number of years,” he said, adding that the firm had spent the last three months working through the design and tender process.

Work starts on site today, he said — breaking out the existing slabs first, with piling and the steel frames to follow.

And the job will be built by local hands. “We don’t leave Wales,” said Mr Pettigrew, explaining that almost all the firm’s work sits along the M4 corridor around Swansea — with the frame contractor and groundworker for the pickle line both Swansea-based, and the steel frame partner in Cardiff.

The new pickle line is one strand of Project Invictus at Port Talbot, whose centrepiece is a 3.2 million-tonne-a-year electric arc furnace that will melt scrap steel with electricity rather than coal — backed by £500m of UK Government funding. The furnace itself has been built and is on its way to south Wales.

The transformation followed the closure of the town’s blast furnaces in 2024 with the loss of around 2,000 jobs, and the furnace’s start-up — due in late 2027 or early 2028 — could slip by up to eight months after National Grid connection delays.

Work across the site has accelerated over the past year, from major groundwork and piling across the furnace area to new scrap-handling infrastructure and grid connection works — with around 1,200 people expected on site at peak.

The Llanelli firm will work alongside Tata and the wider Project Invictus team throughout the delivery of the line.

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The electric arc furnace at the heart of the transformation has been fabricated and is being shipped to south Wales.

GREEN STEEL: Tata ‘confident’ supply will hold after Port Talbot fire
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GREEN STEEL: Tata warns new UK import rules leave Port Talbot exposed

Tata Steel has warned that new UK rules meant to curb cheap steel imports do not go far enough to protect British producers, raising fresh concerns over the future of its Port Talbot operations.

The company was responding to the UK Government’s final steel import quota framework, published today, which takes effect from 1 July.

The measures are intended to shield UK steelmakers from a global glut of cheap steel by limiting how much can be imported tariff-free, with higher tariffs on imports above those limits.

But Tata Steel UK chief executive Rajesh Nair said the final quotas still allowed too much overseas steel into strategically important parts of the UK market.

“We do not believe the final quota levels published today reflect UK market conditions or the pressures facing the domestic steel industry,” he said.

He said several categories of steel would still face significant import competition, “exposing domestic production and supply chains to continued pressure.”

Mr Nair said the company was “disappointed by elements of the final framework” and “very concerned about the implications for the long-term competitiveness, sustainability, growth and future investment outlook for the UK steel sector.”

He said that if the government wanted UK producers to supply half of the country’s steel demand, the quota arrangements would need to offer stronger support, and called on ministers to reconsider parts of the framework.

The trade body UK Steel was also critical. Its director of trade and economics, Peter Brennan, said the new quota had in some areas “made the situation worse for UK producers,” singling out galvanised steel, where he said the allocation for Vietnam had been more than tripled.

He said there had been “an opportunity missed in key areas” that would leave parts of the UK supply chain exposed to heavily subsidised imports.

The government has defended the measures. From 1 July, tariff-free steel imports will be cut and tariffs on imports above the new limits will rise, in a framework ministers say is designed to protect UK steelmaking while still allowing manufacturers to source specialist steels not made in Britain.

It has exempted 11 categories of steel where there is no UK alternative, and has said it wants domestic producers to be able to meet up to half of UK demand.

The government has also pointed to the support it has already put into the industry, including £500m towards the new electric arc furnace being built at Port Talbot.

The intervention matters for Wales, where Tata is part-way through a major transformation of the Port Talbot works.

The company closed its blast furnaces in 2024, with the loss of around 2,000 jobs, and is replacing them with a new electric arc furnace expected to produce lower-carbon “green” steel.

Only yesterday, Tata was showing off a year of transformation as the giant new furnace neared completion.

But the transition has not been smooth. Earlier this month, the firm warned the project could be delayed by up to eight months because of a hold-up connecting it to the electricity grid.

Tata said it recognised the work the government had put into the framework during what it called an exceptionally challenging period for global steel, but urged ministers to keep working with the industry and to reconsider parts of the final arrangements.

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Earlier warnings that Welsh steel needed protection from cheap imports.

GREEN STEEL: Port Talbot’s giant new furnace is built and on its way — as Tata shows off a year of transformation

The centrepiece of Tata Steel’s £1.25bn transformation of Port Talbot — its giant new electric arc furnace — has been built and is now making its way to south Wales.

In a project update, the company said the main components of the furnace had been fabricated and were beginning their journey to Port Talbot from sites around the world.

The furnace has been designed and made by the Italian metals technology firm Tenova, and is billed as one of the largest of its kind ever built, with a main shell measuring more than nine metres across.

Once running, it will be capable of producing 3.2 million tonnes of steel a year, melting scrap using electricity rather than the coal-fired blast furnaces that defined the site for generations.

The update came in the latest instalment of Tata’s own video series charting the rebuild, in which a presenter and project director tour the site a year on from when much of it was still open ground.

Tata’s project director said the big parts were ready to ship, with roughly a two-month sailing ahead of them before they arrive to be offloaded.

The components are being delivered in 11 separate lots, spread out over the coming year, the company said.

According to Tata, the wider project is “on plan” and broadly on time, with the director describing the progress over the past year as a “morale booster” for the workforce.

Around 1,200 people are expected to be working on the site at peak, across civil, mechanical, electrical and piping work.

The video showed the scale of the groundworks — including a former cooling lagoon partly filled with some 220,000 tonnes of stone, and a separate area cleared of around 400,000 tonnes of material.

The footage also showed work on the site’s future scrap yard, which will handle around 70,000 tonnes of scrap a week to feed the new furnace

Nearby, contractors for National Grid are piling the ground for a 275,000-volt substation that will power the furnace, on land the grid operator now leases from Tata.

The furnace site itself was where the UK’s Business and Trade Secretary, Peter Kyle, launched the government’s Steel Strategy in March, and where a groundbreaking ceremony was held in July last year.

Tata’s confident tone follows a turbulent few weeks for the project, however.

Earlier this month, Swansea Bay News reported that the furnace could be delayed by up to eight months over a hold-up in its power connection, prompting cross-party calls for answers and a row over who knew what, and when.

An earlier shipment of furnace parts had also been pushed back by several weeks, with reports linking the delay to rising shipping costs amid tensions in the Middle East.

The switch to electric arc steelmaking, backed by £500m of UK Government funding, is central to Tata’s plan to cut emissions at Port Talbot — but it came at the cost of thousands of jobs when the blast furnaces closed.

A full video tour of the site is available on Tata Steel’s YouTube channel.

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Politicians press Tata and National Grid over the delay.

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The company’s response after a fire at the steelworks this month.

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ENERGY: South Wales could be a clean power giant — so why are bills still high, and what’s holding it back?

South Wales has been told, again and again, that it could be one of the powerhouses of Britain’s clean-energy future.

Off its coast lies some of the best wind and tidal potential in Europe. Above Port Talbot, plans have been drawn for solar farms big enough to power tens of thousands of homes. And in Swansea Bay, the long-held dream of a tidal lagoon has been edging back to life.

Yet many families across the region are still choosing between heating and eating, in homes that leak warmth and on bills that have stayed stubbornly high.

That gap — between the promise and the reality — was at the heart of a gathering of energy chiefs in Swansea this week.

The National Energy System Operator (NESO), the publicly owned body now responsible for planning Britain’s electricity network, held a forum at the Swansea.com Stadium, one of just two it is holding in Wales.

The job NESO has been handed is enormous: to plan the biggest upgrade of the energy grid in generations, deciding what gets built, where, and when.

And for South Wales, the stakes could hardly be higher — because the region’s clean-energy ambitions keep running into the same wall.

The power is there to be harvested. The problem is getting it to where it is needed.

NESO’s Head of Wales, Aled Rowlands, told the forum that while Wales had “a rich energy and industrial heritage”, it faced real obstacles — “uneven connectivity, grid constraints and fuel poverty”.

In plain terms, the grid — the network of cables, substations and pylons that moves electricity around — was largely built for a different age, and cannot yet carry all the new power the region could produce, or deliver all the power that industry now needs.

There is no clearer example than just down the road in Port Talbot.

Tata Steel is building a £1.25bn electric arc furnace to make greener steel — but the furnace needs a vast new electricity connection to run, and that connection has been caught up in delays that could push the project back to 2028.

The setback has triggered cross-party alarm at the Senedd, with politicians pressing Tata and National Grid for answers, and warning of fresh uncertainty for the town’s steelworkers.

If even a flagship national project like green steel can be left waiting for the grid to catch up, it shows the scale of the problem the region faces.

That bottleneck has real consequences. When the network is full or upgrades run late, new projects — and the jobs and investment that come with them — can be delayed for years, or sent elsewhere.

It is why developers say what happens next matters so much. Ben Burggraaf, chief executive of Net Zero Industry Wales, told the Swansea forum that Wales had the chance to become “a leading clean energy transition hub” — but only if the investment in grid infrastructure actually followed.

The clean-energy promise is real, and already taking shape. Plans for a £64m floating wind hub at Port Talbot could create up to 5,000 jobs, while the area’s ports sit at the centre of a multi-billion-pound offshore wind push.

It is the kind of future many hope can replace what was lost when Port Talbot’s blast furnaces closed.

But building the grid to carry all that power comes at a cost that is increasingly visible in the landscape — and increasingly contested.

Across Carmarthenshire, communities have fought back against a wave of pylon and energy-park plans, warning of the “industrialisation” of the countryside and accusing developers of “greed energy, not green energy”.

Those tensions — clean power on one side, the pylons and cables needed to move it on the other — are exactly the choices NESO’s planning is meant to navigate.

For ordinary households, the question is simpler: when does any of this start bringing bills down?

Wales has long had some of the leakiest housing stock in Britain, with most Welsh homes losing money through poor insulation — a problem that pushes up bills regardless of how much clean power is generated nearby.

NESO says a more joined-up plan should, in time, strengthen the network, support cleaner power and deliver “the best possible value for bill payers”.

Whether that promise is felt in people’s pockets — and whether the jobs and investment land in South Wales rather than somewhere else — is the test that matters.

For now, the region sits on an awkward paradox: rich in the energy of the future, but not yet able to plug it all in.

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GREEN STEEL DELAY: Former Aberavon MS says National Grid should face penalties over delayed electric furnace connection

The delay to Port Talbot’s new electric arc furnace — caused by the National Grid’s own infrastructure works running behind — is worse than feared, according to the former politician who spent years scrutinising the project.

David Rees, the former Labour MS for Aberavon and a long-standing chair of the Senedd’s cross-party group on steel, was responding to Tata Steel’s warning that the £1.25bn furnace could be held up by up to eight months, after the National Grid told the company its connection project was running late.

The grid operator needs to build two new substations and lay miles of underground cabling to power the furnace, and has blamed ground conditions and planning issues for the hold-up.

His comments relate to that grid connection — a separate issue from the recent fire at the site’s cold mill.

Rees said he had questioned the grid connection from the very start of the project.

“One of the questions I asked Tata at the beginning of the EAF project was about the grid connection, and were they sure that it would be ready by late 2027,” he said.

He said he had been told repeatedly that the National Grid had given assurances the work would be delivered on time.

“It’s a question I continued to ask every time we met to discuss the project, and every time I received the same assurances,” he said.

In recent months, he said, workers had begun raising concerns that the timeline was slipping.

“I had hoped it would only be a couple of months at worst, and that we would see the EAF operating in spring 2028,” he said.

“It now appears that that was too hopeful, and it is now moving into autumn 2028 before the EAF is operational.”

That timeline goes further than Tata’s own public position, which put the likely delay at six to eight months.

Rees called on the UK and Welsh governments to commit to getting the furnace running as quickly as possible and to minimise any further delay.

He said they “must get National Grid to guarantee this, and pay penalties if they fail to do so”.

The electric arc furnace is central to the future of steelmaking in Port Talbot, replacing the blast furnaces that closed in 2024 with the loss of around 2,000 jobs.

It is designed to make lower-carbon “green steel” by melting scrap in an electric furnace rather than burning coal — but it needs a major grid upgrade to power it.

“We all want to see steel once again being produced in Port Talbot, and it is imperative that this is done as soon as possible,” Rees said.

“Our town and workers deserve nothing less.”

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Tata’s warning over the delayed grid connection.

‘Green power’ boost for Port Talbot as council green-lights major substation expansion
The substation upgrade central to powering the new furnace.

STEELWORKS FIRE: Tata says blaze restricted to ‘confined area’ of Cold Mill
A separate fire at the site earlier this month.

PORT TALBOT: Tata Steel sets out demands for next Welsh Government
The wider £1.25bn transformation and its impact on jobs.

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Green steel based on sustainable charcoal, too good to be true?

This DW documentary takes a peek behind the curtain at the German steel industry and its "green" steel production in Brazil.

The dirty reality behind "green steel"

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Inside the giant Port Talbot steelworks overhaul as Tata clears the way for new Electric Arc Furnace

The video, posted on Tata’s Facebook page, takes viewers back inside the vast BOS Plant — once the beating heart of blast furnace steelmaking — where crews are tearing out decades‑old infrastructure to make way for the new low‑carbon process.

The update shows huge sections of the former hot metal and charging bays stripped back to bare concrete, with legacy equipment, weighing stations, diesel points and even the giant charging cranes now being dismantled. The cavernous building, once filled with molten iron and the roar of converters, is described as “a cathedral” now reduced to a shell as enabling works accelerate.

Project engineers explain that the cleared space will become the EAF shell workshop, where the furnace’s massive components will be assembled and maintained. At the south end of the plant, contractors Sir Robert McAlpine are preparing the installation zone for the furnace itself — a transformation that involves digging out old pits, levelling entire bays and installing new piling across the site.

Tata says the work is “laying the foundations for a new, low‑CO₂ steelmaking process” and marks the next chapter of UK steelmaking. The company insists the EAF will secure the long‑term future of the site, even as thousands of traditional steelmaking jobs disappear.

A year of upheaval for steelworkers

Over the past year, Swansea Bay News has followed every twist in Port Talbot’s steel saga. What began with warnings of weak demand soon spiralled into a series of hammer blows for workers — from Christmas shutdowns that slashed pay packets to the announcement that 2,800 jobs were at risk as Tata confirmed its plan to close the blast furnaces.

The uncertainty has fuelled political rows in Cardiff and Westminster, with unions accusing Tata of refusing to wait for Labour’s promised investment and MPs warning of a “betrayal” of steel communities. EU tariffs, global market pressures and soaring costs have only deepened the crisis.

At the same time, the company has pressed ahead with its £1.25bn green transition, signing contracts for new technology, appointing Sir Robert McAlpine to lead the decarbonisation build, and beginning early works on the Electric Arc Furnace. Government funding has been announced, retraining schemes launched, and start‑up grants rolled out to help families prepare for life after steel.

Communities have shown resilience — from welding academies retraining former workers to local leaders fighting to protect jobs — but the financial strain on households has been impossible to ignore. And as demolition crews move through the plant, the physical dismantling of the old steelworks has become a stark symbol of the upheaval facing the town.

Inside the BOS Plant: a steel cathedral stripped bare

In the new video, engineers walk viewers through the vast BOS Plant, pointing out where the old weighing stations, fume hoods, diesel points and hot metal pits once stood. Much of the floor has been ripped up, leaving gaping holes where equipment sat for decades.

The removal of the south charging crane — a job so large it requires opening the roof and bringing in a giant external crane — is described as a “huge undertaking”. The north crane was once installed the same way.

Long‑serving staff speak openly about the emotional toll of dismantling equipment they helped install 35 years ago, even as they acknowledge the need to move forward.

South end transformation: where the new furnace will rise

The video then moves to the south end of the plant, now controlled by Sir Robert McAlpine. The area is almost unrecognisable. Entire bays have been stripped out, old scrap‑handling areas flattened, and deep pits dug out to prepare for the new furnace and ladle metallurgy stations.

Engineers explain how the EAF will sit in the south‑west corner, with new transfer tracks linking the furnace, the ladle furnaces and the caster. Massive piling work will be needed across the entire building to support the new equipment.

Even in its stripped‑back state, the layout of the future steelmaking process is beginning to emerge.

A new era — but at a heavy cost

Tata says the EAF will cut emissions dramatically and modernise the plant, but unions warn the shift will slash jobs and leave the UK dependent on imported steel scrap. The company has already confirmed that large parts of the works will close permanently this year.

Despite the upheaval, Tata insists progress is “well underway behind the scenes” and promises more updates as the project moves forward.

The next major milestone will be the arrival of the EAF shell and equipment — a moment that will symbolise the end of one era of Welsh steelmaking and the beginning of another.

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Maybe it's not too bad?

- when the remaining 10 % has to be compensated by green steel and biofuels

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One year on: Council leader hails resilience after Port Talbot blast furnace closure

Cllr Steve Hunt said the end of primary steelmaking in the town had been a “seismic change” for the area, but stressed that support schemes and local determination had helped many adapt to life after the furnaces fell silent.

A year since the furnaces went cold

On 30 September 2024, Port Talbot’s last blast furnace was shut down, ending more than a century of traditional steelmaking in the town. At its peak, the site employed around 20,000 people, but by the time of closure the workforce had fallen to around 4,000. Tata Steel said the furnaces were losing around £1 million a day, citing high energy costs, ageing assets and competition from cheaper imports.

The decision brought 2,800 direct job losses, with unions warning that thousands more in the supply chain could be at risk. For a community built around heavy industry, the closure was described as “life‑changing” and sparked fears of long‑term decline.

Yet, one year on, the council leader says the picture is more complex. “Many affected workers have used the Employment & Skills Fund to move forward with their careers, some into entirely new fields of work or even emerging industries such as AI,” said Cllr Hunt. “Others have started their own businesses or diversified existing ones. It has been inspiring to see how our communities have responded to the challenges this has brought.”

Support and adaptation

To soften the blow, the UK Government pledged £80 million in transition funding, delivered locally through a series of support schemes. These included retraining programmes, grants for supply‑chain businesses, start‑up support for new ventures, and resilience funding for firms looking to diversify. Mental health services were also expanded, with organisations such as NPT Mind offering counselling and wellbeing programmes in schools.

According to figures presented to the Tata Steel / Port Talbot Transition Board, the funds have already helped dozens of businesses and thousands of individuals. More than 3,600 training courses have been completed, over 300 people have found new jobs, and nearly 600 Tata employees have been redeployed within the company. Despite the scale of the redundancies, council leaders say there has not been a significant spike in unemployment locally.

Looking to the future

While the closure of the blast furnaces marked the end of an era, Tata Steel has committed to building a new electric arc furnace at Port Talbot by 2027–28, backed by £500 million of UK Government funding. The move is expected to slash carbon emissions and secure a future for steelmaking in the town, albeit with a smaller workforce.

Alongside this, the SWITCH research facility at Port Talbot Harbourside and the Celtic Freeport project are being hailed as signs of a new industrial chapter. “These developments will see a new place for steelmaking which, alongside major projects such as the Celtic Freeport, give us cause for optimism as we adapt to what has been a seismic change for the whole area,” said Cllr Hunt.

A community in transition

For many in Port Talbot, the past year has been one of uncertainty and adjustment. Community groups have reported a dip in morale, but also a determination to find new opportunities. The council leader insists that the support on offer is making a difference and urged anyone affected to seek help.

“Change on this scale is never easy,” he said. “But the resilience of our people and the willingness of businesses to adapt shows that Port Talbot has a future beyond the blast furnaces.”

Further details of the support schemes are available at www.npt.gov.uk/tatatransition.

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Powering change: National Grid sets out plans to electrify green steel in Port Talbot

National Grid has announced plans for a major electricity infrastructure upgrade in Port Talbot to power Tata Steel’s new electric arc furnace (EAF) and strengthen energy capacity across South Wales.

The Margam Connection Project includes the expansion of the existing Margam substation with a new 275kV gas-insulated substation (GIS), and a second GIS facility at the Tata Steel site connected via underground cable. Both sites will be built using SF6-free switchgear technology, reducing the project’s environmental footprint.

A public information event will take place on Thursday 17 July, from 2pm to 8pm, at Margam Community Centre, Bertha Road, Port Talbot, ahead of a 28-day statutory pre-application consultation.

Richard Gott, project director at National Grid Electricity Transmission, said the upgrade will help deliver a cleaner, more secure energy future for South Wales. “By enabling the electrification of Tata Steel’s operations, we’re not only supporting the UK’s transition to green steel but also helping to safeguard jobs and strengthen the local economy,” he said. “We look forward to engaging with the community and hearing their views.”

Construction will be delivered in partnership with Laing O’Rourke, using pioneering technology that replaces sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)—a commonly used but potent greenhouse gas—with lower-impact alternatives.

Peter Lyons, managing director for Laing O’Rourke’s Europe hub, said the firm was proud to continue its partnership with National Grid. “This project is another fantastic example of how we’re helping to deliver cleaner and more secure energy for the UK,” he said. “Through early collaboration, we’ve worked together on the design and implementation programme, and National Grid has valued both our unique operating model and our technical expertise.”

National Grid is planning £35 billion of transmission network investment across Wales and England between 2026 and 2031 to connect clean power sources, electrify industry, and support national economic growth.

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Australia's Fortescue partners with China Baowu to tackle steel industry decarbonisation

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