Modern Fleet Q&A: Will Goldsmith, Head of Grid and Data Services, EV.Energy
What car do you drive?
I drive a fully electric Hyundai Kona Ultimate. It’s a fantastic car with over 250 mile real-world range and level...
Cleverer net charges & more BM players could fast-track UK’s energy transition: Cornwall &...
Reforming fees charged to use the electricity network could accelerate cost-effective decarbonisation of Britain’s electricity system, putting the UK back on track meet its...
First Hydrogen to hold track day
First Hydrogen is to hold its first track day to showcase its hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEV) to major UK fleet managers.
The event will provide...
Watchdog barks: Heatnet oversight ”will fail consumers” unless lower prices & fairer practices are...
The UK’s 900,000 heat network consumers will judge regulation to have failed if it does not deliver cheaper, fairer and more reliable heating systems,...
SP Energy Networks pockets smidgeon south of £1mill to boost grid by 20%-plus
Scottish Power Energy Networks has been awarded just south of £1million from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund to progress two innovative projects.
The grid operator’s Blade...
Fortescue opens UK battery innovation centre
Fortescue has opened a technical innovation centre in Kidlington that will focus on the technical development, testing and prototype production of batteries and zero...
Vital EV installs chargers at Millbrook
Vital EV has installed the UK’s first liquid-cooled 400kW Kempower Satellite Chargers at the UTAC Millbrook automotive testing facility in Bedfordshire.
The two 400kW chargers,...
Three year payback on PV system serving Yorkshire hospice
A 73 kWp solar photovoltaic system installed on a Pontefract hospice is set to save £20,000 a year on energy bills, paying for itself...
Konnichiwa, Kraken ! ‘Ows tha doin‘, Coventry?
Staff at fast-growing Octopus Energy were today celebrating two business successes, saluting separately the mystical Orient and the somewhat less mystical West Midlands of...
Ofgem finds £1.3m to advance NG innovations
Three National Grid-led projects developing electricity transmission and distribution network innovations will continue their work after securing £1.3 million for the next stage of...
CCC to Sunak & Coutinho: “You’re making near-term Net Zero harder to achieve“
Government ambiguities and watering down of Net Zero targets risk imperilling Britain’s progress to the nation’s 2050 goal, key scientific advisors warn today.
The Climate...
Osprey installs EV chargers in East Renfrewshire
Osprey Charging has installed eight high-powered EV chargers at the Barrhead Retail Park in East Renfrewshire.
The 300kW rapid charge points are compatible with every...
Britain tots up 50k public EV charging points: 100k by August 2025, predicts Zapmap
Device counters at Zapmap calculate that Britain has crossed the threshold of 50,000 public EV chargers. On current rates of deployment, the nation will plug...
Carbon removal technology
We are now on a trajectory where if we are to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius, as per the Paris Agreement, we will need...
West Midlands Gigafactory in talks with Asian battery manufacturers
The West Midlands Gigafactory joint venture has confirmed that it is in advanced discussions with several leading Asian battery manufacturers about future investment at...
Government allocates public buildings £230 million for PSDS round 3c
The government is making a pot of £230 million immediately available to UK public authorities for heat decarbonisation and better energy efficiency in schools,...
Crikey & Thunder! Pom solar boffins go Dutch on Outback jalopy jaunt
Solar electricity innovators Oxford PV are deploying their patented perovskite-on-silicon tandem cells for the first time as an automotive power source, motivating the Top...
Rolls-Royce and NPL ally to monitor mini-nukes
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Rolls-Royce SMR are partnering on a new project to investigate safe automated reactor operation for nuclear-powered Small Modular...
Kleanbus repowering diesel buses to electric for Lothian
Kleanbus has begun a pilot project with Edinburgh-based bus operator Lothian to repower 18 of its existing open-top mid-life diesel vehicles to electric.
The Volvo...
Flex Assure launches code to boost SMEs’ trust in micro-flex trades
Today sees the launch of a new code of conduct, designed to protect homes and small businesses dipping their toes in the flexibility market,...