A cross-party group of MPs has piled pressure onto the government to use next week’s budget to implement greater tax incentives for electric vehicles just days after lobbyists for the automotive and green sectors did the same.
Total Gas & Power is to launch a new electric vehicle charging offer to the 175,000 business sites it supplies throughout the UK after agreeing a reseller partnership with ChargePoint.
Vertiv is to use Upside Energy’s cloud-based flexibility platform to enable its customers with uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to provide unutilised energy to the UK electricity grid.
Local energy marketplaces and their interaction with existing licensing regimes have proven a particular area of interest within Ofgem’s regulatory sandbox initiative, with BP and British Gas named amongst its new participants.
Uber has teamed up with seven electric vehicle charging suppliers to offer its drivers cheaper prices for home charge points, while adding 15p per mile to each London journey to fund the switch to EVs across its London fleet.
Pivot Power has received planning approval for its second ~50MW battery project, to be located north of Carlisle, as it continues to progress towards the goal of a 45-site battery network supporting electric vehicle charging hubs.
The University of Oxford is to test the capabilities of a Virtual Private Wire Network (VPWN) to manage the energy use of 400 buildings currently linked together on a micro-grid via a private wire network.
