Royal Dutch Shell is offering to install 50,000 public electric vehicle charge points in the UK by 2025, a rollout that would put…
Continue ReadingLast year at this time the UK was partway through a 55-day stretch without its coal plants coming online once. Today, power stations…
Continue ReadingPossibility of Blackouts Without Government Action on EV Charging, Transport Committee Warns
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Unless Britain’s power grid is upgraded, the demand of millions of electric vehicles could cause blackouts, the House of Commons’s Transport Committee warns.
Continue ReadingThe UK’s competition authority has urged the government to step-in to prevent “charging deserts” in the electric car charger market.
Continue ReadingThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has laid out guidelines to ensure the UK has a robust network of public electric vehicle charge…
Continue ReadingGreat Britain will face its greatest risk of blackouts in six years this coming winter, as closures of coal plants and nuclear power…
Continue ReadingIndependent Body to Replace National Grid as Electricity System Operator
Written by Lauren Smith in Electricity
National Grid will lose its role in running Great Britain’s electricity grid to an independent body, which will better and more cheaply deliver…
Continue ReadingBritish billpayers should brace for steeper energy costs this autumn after wholesale power prices reached record highs in the second quarter of the…
Continue ReadingPlans for Somerset Gas Plant Scrapped in Favour of Battery Storage Scheme
Written by Lauren Smith in Electricity
In a decision telling of the UK’s changing energy priorities, plans to construct a gas-fired power station have been ditched in favour of…
Continue ReadingSmall and mid-sized businesses are facing steep electricity bills this year, as the wholesale market continues to overheat, a new analysis by Cornwall…
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