electric vehicles

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

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

Keeping tabs on ‘invisible’ network assets with blockchain-based innovation

Energy Web CEO Jesse Morris reflects on the role of blockchain-based technology in recent efforts to enhance the position of Australia and California’s distributed energy assets in their respective grids.

09/11/2021

Analysis

Which drivers are steering innovation in network asset management?

Amid work towards the UK’s 2050 net zero target and a shifting landscape of expectation and responsibility, experts shed light on some of the prevailing external forces shaping innovation in asset management.

07/10/2021

Analysis

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

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

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

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

Wessex Water adds bio-gas HGVs to fleet

Wessex Water is putting two HGVs on the roads powered by bio-waste from its wastewater treatment plants to close the loop on waste and reduce its emissions as it works towards sector-wide net-zero commitments.

09/06/2021

News

SES switches company cars to EVs

SES Water has taken further steps to minimise carbon emissions from its vehicle fleet by providing only electric or plug-in hybrid employee cars.

22/04/2021

News

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.

20/10/2020

News

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