The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that a replacement for the Zero Carbon Homes initiative, effectively scrapped by the government in July, is one of two “main concerns” for the Committee alongside the development of electric vehicles.

Schneider Electric and Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions have signed a five-year partnership that will see the companies work together to provide electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions.

The UK’s Electricity Storage Network (ESN) advocates and educates for a better understanding of the issues surrounding various storage technologies, and how they can be among a number of resources to help balance the country’s energy networks.

Nottingham City Council has launched the first council-owned, not-for-profit energy company since the UK’s energy supply was nationalised in 1948.

Despite there only being three months until the deadline for compliance with the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme, only 152 organisations have informed the Environment Agency that they are compliant, according to Savills Energy.

The office of low emission vehicles has confirmed that it will extend the current plug-in grant offered to electric vehicles out to February 2016 at a minimum.

Electricity North West’s voltage reduction trial could presage problems for companies who have installed or sell voltage optimisation equipment.

Attendees at Solar Media's first Energy Storage roundtable in London have agreed that the nascent energy storage sector will need robust regulation if it is to fufill its enormous potential.

Highview Power Storage, a UK company which makes energy storage systems based on liquid air technology, has said that work is well underway on a 5MW demonstration project in the north-west of England.

Energy storage in the UK residential sector is "set to take off", according to experts at an energy storage roundtable.