​The £130 million purchase of Chargemaster by BP will see the company “enhance and accelerate” its deployment programme and triple its manufacturing capabilities over the next 12-18 months, according to the company’s director of strategy.

BP is to snap up Chargemaster, the UK’s largest electric vehicle charging company, in a deal that it said would advance the transition to electric transport.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has rebuked the government for failing to deliver a pipeline of decarbonisation policies across several sectors, stressing that the time for it to address climate matters is running out.

​Pivot Power’s maiden 50MW battery and electric vehicle charging hub could be set for Southampton after the first planning documents appeared for the company’s proposed 2GW nationwide network.

United Utilities has become the latest intensive energy user to turn to artificial intelligence and demand management to help trim its energy consumption.

Energy firm Limejump has bolstered its technological expertise with the appointment of a new chief technology officer.

​The economist behind the upcoming energy price cap has been selected by the government to chair Ofgem and take on the ‘seismic change’ underway in the UK energy sector.

​A legal challenge to Ofgem’s decision to reduce the payments made to small embedded generators (EGs) when producing energy at peak has been dismissed.