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As part of our Keeping Us Connected series we profile an SSE Renewables engineer who is giving up his free time to 3D print face shields for frontline workers across the country.
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Carl Bayliss, vice president of Centrica Innovations, talks to Utility Week about the company’s joint strategy with Lotus to “redefine the customer relationship with cars”. Meanwhile, Western Power Distribution has updated its Electric Vehicle strategy, including new charging solutions for domestic customers and easier connection processes for charge point operators.
A start-up incubator has been launched to harness the skills of furloughed workers in the energy sector for low-carbon projects. Spinning Reserve, which has been created by Rosa Stewart, the head of external affairs for SSE Energy – now part of Ovo Group, aims to tackle negative issues of unemployment and seize an opportunity to upskill fledgling net zero projects.
Former Bank of England governor and now UK climate finance envoy Mark Carney has backed an emissions trading system as the best option for pricing carbon pricing, while warning that it is impossible for countries to “self-isolate” against climate change.
In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, there is celebration of a record one month without coal-fired electricity generation in Britain. National Grid ESO’s response to the demands of the lockdown is also featured, while energy is emerging as a key plank of debate in Brexit talks.
Utility Week digital editor James Wallin examines how the responses of water and energy regulators have differed during the coronavirus outbreak.
As part of our Keeping Us Connected series, we profile Wales & West Utilities gas engineer, Dan Brooks. He describes how interaction with the public – a core element of his role – has drastically changed as a result of coronavirus.
The government’s climate change watchdog has urged Boris Johnson to exploit the recent plunge in the price of oil by introducing a long-term hike in carbon taxes. The Committee on Climate Change said the current situation provides “an opportunity to offset changes in relative prices without hurting consumers”. It has also called for plans for a “large scale” national low-carbon infrastructure programme to be accelerated and for the UK’s energy networks to be “significantly strengthened”.
Network leaders must stop overanalysing and start getting on with the job of decarbonisation says Western Power Distribution’s, DSO systems manager, Roger Hey.
In the latest of a series of articles exclusively for Utility Week members, Maxine Frerk – former Ofgem executive – looks at how code bodies have responded to the coronavirus outbreak and what part they can play in the industry’s response to the easing of lockdown.
