EVs

Creating a shared market platform to upscale use of customer flexibility

Alex Howard, product manager for DSO market platform, at UK Power Networks (UKPN) outlines how the company plans to make it easier and more rewarding to participate in local flexibility markets and discusses its recently launched consultation.

14/10/2022

Comment

How do we ensure consumers are fairly rewarded for providing domestic flexibility?

The energy revolution is underway. Top-down, linear energy systems are becoming relics of a bygone age. In their place, we’re seeing dynamic bi-directional flows of energy, a proliferation of decentralised assets, and the beginnings of a future energy system that – if it is to be clean, reliable and resilient – must put people at its centre.

30/09/2022

Comment

‘One-stop-shop’ UKPN portal fast tracks low carbon tech

UK Power Networks (UKPN) portal, Smart Connect, has hooked up more than 10,000 electric car chargers to the network in its first year. Head of customer service and innovation, Ian Cameron, explains both its acceleration of low carbon technology applications and how UKPN plans to create capacity to accommodate new devices.

25/07/2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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