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SSEN and UKPN team up to bring together EV data

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks and UK Power Networks have launched a new project to bring together and share electric vehicle data from car dealerships, chargepoint operators and electricity networks. They said the Skyline partnership will help them to pinpoint when and where new demand from electric vehicle charging will emerge with “unprecedented accuracy”.

4 years ago

Creating virtual driveways

If electric vehicles are to dominate the UK’s highways and byways then it is essential the charging infrastructure is accessible to all. That means finding a solution for the estimated eight million drivers in the UK who do not have access to off-street parking. Utility Week explores an innovative approach to this problem, which seeks to avoid tensions created by excessive street furniture.

4 years ago

Energy Catapult chief reconvenes EV Energy taskforce

The EV Energy Taskforce, which brings together energy and automotive industries, has been asked to reconvene to help overcome obstacles to the rollout of electric vehicles.

4 years ago

Town-scale trials needed to end ‘total paralysis’ on heating

4 years ago

Introducing the voices of the future

The energy industry has laid the foundations for net zero but it is the next generation of sector leaders that will be responsible for ensuring the 2050 target is achieved. In the first of a series of articles, Utility Week talks to the five winners of the Young Energy Professionals Awards 2020 to gauge their views on everything from decarbonisation to diversity. We start with how young people perceive the energy sector and how this is changing.

4 years ago

The Green Recovery – major new report from Utility Week

4 years ago

Expert View: The importance of reducing short interruptions

4 years ago

Build Back Better: WPD’s role in the green economic recovery

4 years ago

Consumer trust ‘is essential to energy transition’

Building consumer trust in the energy sector, as well as using technology to drive forward change, will be key components of the energy transition, industry observers have stressed. Speaking during a panel discussion at the annual Energy UK conference, industry leaders discussed the future of energy retail markets following the pandemic.

4 years ago

Are we sleepwalking into a two-tier energy market?

Today’s energy customers have a plethora of choice in energy tariffs and access to green technologies. Yet concerns have been raised about the prospect of some consumers being left behind, and a two-tier market emerging in which tech-savvy prosumers benefit from a smarter system while poorer customers miss out. Adam John reports.

4 years ago

New EV service launched to support roaming between charging networks

4 years ago

Sales of pure EVs hit almost 22,000 in September

4 years ago

Total acquires on-street charging network in London

4 years ago

Smart meters or emergency brakes?

4 years ago

Armitt says UK nuclear is on hold until funding model is clear

It is “impossible to see” how new nuclear power stations will be developed in the UK until a framework for financing them is in place, National Infrastructure Sir John Armitt has warned.

4 years ago

House of Lords should ‘lead by example’ and install EV chargers

The House of Lords should set an example and install electric vehicle (EV) chargers in its car park, according to a Conservative peer, who has said his request to do has been twice turned down.

4 years ago

Tesla becomes first trader to access balancing mechanism through new online route

4 years ago

Labour calls for 2030 phase out of diesel and petrol vehicles

Labour has urged the government to bring forward its proposed ban on new non-electric cars and vans to 2030.

4 years ago

Consumer protection and building a high-trust, low-carbon economy

In his latest column for Utility Week, Energy Ombudsman CEO Matthew Vickers discusses the ways in which the energy market is reshaping before our eyes. He argues that as customers take on more active roles in the energy system, protections and safeguards need to keep pace.

4 years ago

Gridserve partners with high street retailers as first ‘Electric Forecourt’ nears completion

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