Green transport

Firms must be strategic about building EV infrastructure

Companies should be more strategic in looking at charging options for their own electric vehicle (EV) fleets and identify where charging is most likely to take place, a fleet expert has suggested. Matt Dale, head of fleet consulting at property management company Mitie, was speaking at Utility Week Live, sponsored by Capita.

24/05/2022

News

Mapping out the role of V2G in energy flexibility

With intelligent energy platform Kaluza recently pledging carbon negativity by 2030, the firm reflected on the progress made during EV hook up Project Sciurus, where the firm’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) plans go next and how the technology can be a key enabler of energy flexibility on the road to net zero.

03/12/2021

Analysis

Aligning EV innovation with the needs of the grid

Effie Vraka of charge point manufacturer Easee shifts through the actions she believes are needed to take the handbrake off the UK's electric transport ambitions.

16/09/2021

Interviews

Innovation towards greater clean energy independence given £10m boost

Green energy entrepreneurs striving to cut the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels have the chance to bring their innovations to life thanks to £10 million funding through the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.

25/03/2022

News

Innovation round-up: Green heating for social housing, £30m water research centre, Veolia launch to tackle hazardous waste

The latest Innovate round-up includes news of a hybrid boiler collaboration involving SGN and UK Power Networks and work beginning on a £30 million water research centre from South West Water and the University of Exeter.

04/02/2022

News

Optimise Prime: commercial vehicle innovation will determine the speed of EV transition

Two years into Optimise Prime – a trial involving up to 4,000 commercial vehicles and partners including Uber and Royal Mail – hopes are high that insights gleaned can create a ‘replicable gold standard’ for the global EV rollout and drive innovation to manage a reshaped load curve.

01/02/2022

Analysis

Meet the Innovators: Marzia Zafar, Kaluza

Kaluza’s director of sustainability, market development and energy policy, Marzia Zafar, reflects on her 26 years in the utilities sector, the need to rethink the role of energy companies, and innovating quickly in response to market demands.

19/01/2022

Interviews

Innovation round-up: smart meter ‘blackspots’, priority services registers and recycling EV batteries

Utility Week Innovate’s first round-up of 2022 features Veolia’s first UK electric vehicle battery recycling facility, pan-utility efforts to improve priority services register support, and plans to trial solutions to smart meter ‘blackspots’.

14/01/2022

News

Icebreaker One: baseline data plumbing for an open energy sector

Icebreaker One CEO Gavin Starks explains how lessons in standardisation and data sharing from open banking can drive the energy sector towards net zero – and empower it to harness an explosion of green innovation.

20/12/2021

Interviews

Innovation round-up: Customer experience digital twin, Humber ‘hydrogen town’, ‘super sewer’ makes Blackfriars connection

The latest round-up of utility industry innovation includes a customer experience digital twin from Northumbrian Water, plans for a ‘hydrogen town’ in the Humber region and an update on London’s ‘super sewer’.

17/12/2021

News

UK well placed to build a ‘vibrant’ fuel cell industry

CEO and founder of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, Celia Greaves, believes the UK stands before a gaping ‘window of opportunity’ to take a global lead on fuel cells – despite ‘very little’ recent attention.

04/10/2021

Comment

Electricity networks driving change

The Energy Networks Association profiles some of the key projects underway across the country to accelerate the switch to electric vehicles.

09/09/2021

Opinion

‘Flat & flush’ on-street charging trial launches

An Innovate UK trial to reduce clutter for on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging has gone live. The first chargepoints have been installed as part of the Subsurface Technology for Electric Pathways (STEP) project, funded by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) and delivered by Innovate UK

29/07/2021

News

Laying the groundwork for charge-as-you-drive EVs

A network of EV charging stations is taking shape, but what if this technology is joined by a rival methodology, wireless charge-as-you-drive? Researchers are already laying test strips in roadways, and Western Power Distribution is examining the implications for its networks. UW Innovate spoke to WPD innovation manager Yiango Mavrocostanti.

15/07/2021

Interviews

She’s electric, can I be electric too?

Utilities consultancy Reson8 explores how to reduce carbon emissions by 12 per cent from commercial vehicles by making scheduling more efficient. This could cut the fuel needed for journeys to save time, money and carbon.

21/06/2021

Opinion

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