Energy supplier OVO Energy has launched a new smart charging EV plan allowing customers to access charging rates of 10p per kWh – three times cheaper than the UK average of 34p per kWh.
Future of roads minister Lilian Greenwood has confirmed that the government and industry are expected to install over 100,000 EV chargepoints “in the coming years”.
The government’s comprehensive spending review has seen a 16% increase in departmental spending on the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) but diverted £2.5 billion of Great British Energy funding to nuclear power.
The UK EV charging infrastructure market has entered its “second wave”; a data-driven era where operational insight is as, if not more, key than merely getting EV chargepoints in the ground, according to Fuuse and Techniche.
Intelligent power management company Eaton and EV charger financing and installation firm AMP IT SA have joined up for a new project aimed at expanding the rollout of EV chargers in buildings across Switzerland.
Glen Earrach Energy, the developer of a proposed pumped storage hydro (PSH) project in Scotland, has announced that it will contribute 5% of gross margin revenues from the proposed scheme to the local community.