The Committee on Climate Change chairman Lord Deben has called upon the government to take urgent action to fill a policy gap created by clean energy cuts and sought clarification on where the government’s green policy is headed.
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.
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.
The nationwide introduction of voltage control across the UK’s electricity network could reduce demand by 3GW, according to distribution network operator (DNO) Electricity North West.
The government will trial wireless charging for electric vehicles on roads later this year with a view to implementing the technology on the UK’s motorway and A road network.
Tesla has confirmed that its latest electric vehicle, the Model X, will be launching in September but warned that unforeseen problems with suppliers could impact planned production.
The government has reaffirmed its pledge to install 53 million smart meters across the UK by 2020 in its official response to the Competition Markets Authority’s (CMA) provisional findings in its energy market investigation.
