The nominations window for next year’s inaugural Electric Vehicle Innovation & Excellence Awards, hosted by Solar Media, is to close in less than a month’s time.

Solar Media's Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe are back for episode three of the Solar Media Podcast, discussing what's necessary for economies to reach net zero status - and, crucially, when that can be reached - while also taking a look at the recent spate of technology partnerships in the power sector. Meanwhile, Andy looks back at what's been a bumper month for energy storage developments worldwide.

Today, more than half of all households across Africa do not have access to any form of energy. This means that more than 600 million people currently do not have electricity.

Tempus Energy has accused the European Commission of caving to industry pressure and rushing through its investigation into the Capacity Market, after the mechanism was cleared to be reinstated.

​Vattenfall and Honda have signed a letter of intent for a domestic EV charging solution to be rolled out in Europe.

​The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an inquiry into the proposed acquisition of SSE’s energy supply division by OVO.

​National Grid Partners has invested in three more companies, bringing its overall total to 18.

​Ofgem has officially replied to an article in the Guardian that accused the energy watchdog of stalling the electric vehicle (EV) rollout, saying that is does “not fully reflect Ofgem’s position.”

​Cloud software company Vlocity and big six energy provider British Gas today announced that they had successfully implemented the formers Energy & Utilities Cloud, built on Salesforce.

​SSE's Distributed Energy arm is launching an energy as a service platform in a "landmark" partnership with Smarter Grid Solutions.