Electric vehicles: Define ‘smart’ charging, urge DNOs

UK Power Networks and Northern Powergrid on the need to define what smart charging actually means, greater low voltage network visibility and how businesses...

Vehicle-to-grid study suggests £400 annual revenue per electric vehicle

A UK study into the income potential of using electric vehicles to balance the grid suggests around £400 per annum may be the upper...

Centrica bundles EV charging, solar and battery storage

Centrica Business Solutions is hoping to take a slice of the burgeoning EV market by bundling charging infrastructure with solar, storage and energy supply. The...

Engie acquires electric vehicle charging firm Charge Point Services

French-owned utility Engie has acquired electric vehicle charging provider Charge Point Services (CPS), which owns the Genie Point nationwide EV charging network.  The charging company's...

EVs: Engenie and Gridserve push on with charging network plans

Electric vehicle charging company Engenie will install 12 rapid (50kW) chargers in Cardiff as the city aims to reduce air pollution. Cardiff Council has...

Engenie lands £35m Cube investment, plans 2,000 rapid EV chargers

Engenie has secured £35m in backing from infrastructure investor Cube. The company will use the funds to rollout 2,000 rapid electric vehicle chargers over...

BP Chargemaster to install 200 rapid EV chargers at Mitchells & Butlers pubs

BP Chargemaster has signed a deal to install up to 200 rapid electric vehicle chargers at Mitchells & Butlers pubs and restaurants, with 50...

All new rapid EV chargers must have card payment functionality

All new rapid and super fast electric vehicle (EV) chargers installed from April 2020 must offer card payment functionality. While the mandate only applies to...

UK Power Networks launches time of use smart EV charging trial

UK Power Networks has launched a smart charging trial that will incentivise electric car drivers to charge at times that best suit the local...
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Planning permission granted for Oxford 50MW lithium-vanadium hybrid battery

Planning permission has been approved for the key substation site proposed for the Energy Superhub project in Oxford. Flow storage company RedT said it enables...

Cyan Finance plans EV splurge, hires former BP Chargemaster commercial chief

Cyan Finance has hired James Jean-Louis, formerly of BP Chargemaster, as it bids to significantly expand its footprint within electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.  Jean-Louis...

Centrica strikes electric vehicle deal with Ford

Centrica has struck a deal with Ford to install electric vehicle charging infrastructure to its customers and dealerships. The energy supplier hopes Ford’s customers...

Vattenfall signs EV charger roaming agreement with Shell’s New Motion

Vattenfall and New Motion have signed a roaming agreement that provides open access to 400 UK public electric vehicle (EV) chargers via a single...

Calling all fleet operators: Free vehicle-to-grid charging infrastructure

The consortium behind a large-scale vehicle-to-grid trial has urged more fleet operators to get involved. E-Flex aims to develop vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services using up to...

Kaluza: electric vehicles can displace large-scale battery storage

Conor Maher-McWilliams, head of flexibility at Kaluza, believes domestic flexibility could be bigger than the business-to-business market, “based on the fact that we are...
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure: Making the numbers stack up

EVs are going to hit the UK in big numbers. The question is when and how should businesses prepare? National Grid has modelled up to...

Businesses outline incentives needed to boost EV infrastructure

The Energyst asked businesses what incentives or policies would help them switch to electric vehicles and install charging infrastructure. Here is a selection of...

EVs: Understand grid constraints before diving in

Total’s James Turner says businesses that plan ahead for EV uptake will save cost and effort in the long run. When it comes to installing...

Steven Chu: Lithium metal sulphur batteries will make EVs cheap

Steven Chu, the former United States Secretary of Energy, and co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics, believes lithium metal sulphur batteries will...
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Good Energy becomes business EV charging infrastructure provider

Renewable power firm Good Energy has launched a business-to-business electric vehicles charging division called One Point. Destination and workplace charging will become increasingly important as...