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Moixa and Honda have launched a new partnership with Islington Council as it seeks to electrify its entire fleet of 500 vehicles to meet new emissions standards and achieve its 2030 net-zero target.
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It will be a fascinating study in environmental politics, but what could Climate Assembly UK mean for utilities?
Floating wind farms will be able to compete on price with their fixed offshore counterparts by the end of the decade, a developer has predicted. It comes amid warnings that the scope for further expansion of fixed offshore wind farms is dwindling.
Smart charging should be the default for EV users connecting at home from next year, a new report has recommended. This is one of 21 proposals from the EV Energy Taskforce in its newly launched report, which also calls on the government and Ofgem to support the development of a new co-ordinated and accessible market for flexibility, aimed at EV drivers, by 2023 at the latest.
The director of EVs at Ovo and Octopus’ former head of smart projects are among those to tell Utility Week they support the AA’s plea to government to remove VAT from the price of an electric vehicle (EV). However, they insist this needs to be part of a wider package of measures to stimulate EV take-up.
The UK must invest in ground source heat pump infrastructure in the 2020s, just as previous generations ploughed money into the gas and water grid, in order to help kickstart the fledgling sector, its trade body has claimed.
The government should create a new flexibility mechanism to help the grid to deal with rapid fluctuations in demand, a battery owner and operator has told Utility Week.
In the papers this weekend there were reports that UK energy providers are sourcing cheap green energy certificates from Lithuania, that Katie Bickerstaffe is leaving her role as chair of SSE Energy Services "within weeks" and that Octopus Energy is looking to expand to Scandinavian and Asian markets.
A high-efficiency waste gasification demonstrator project funded by the Energy Technologies Institute is producing electricity for the grid, but its sponsoring organisation was wound up at the end of December. Before closing day, ETI project manager Paul Winstanley told Elaine Knutt about what the ETI/Kew Technology Sustainable Energy Centre has achieved, and possible future milestones.
Utility companies cannot allow themselves to become complacent about their commitments to society and the environment, despite the sudden certainty provided by the general election. Sustainability First director, Sharon Darcy, sets out the ways in which the sector can deliver on fairness and green pledges and how the regulatory regime can align to support this.
Tackling climate change will be a “central priority” of March’s upcoming Budget, a Treasury minister has told the House of Commons.
Utility Week magazine editor, Suzanne Heneghan, looks at what is likely to be in store for the sector in 2020 - including an overhaul of the policy machine, the next steps on the net-zero journey and further debate over the evolution of the grid.
