All Energy articles – Page 2
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FCZ ArticleNew Devon bus chargers to be offered to freight customers
High-powered DC charging infrastructure is to be built at three strategic bus depot locations in Devon - Barnstaple, Torquay and Exeter - by Stagecoach South West and e-fleet solutions provider VEV. The sites will also be available as ‘Community Charging Hubs’ with high-speed charging and Stagecoach told FCZ it is ...
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FCZ ArticleTransport Scotland offers grants to small hauliers to examine potential electrification pathways
Transport Scotland is offering grants of up to £20,000 for smaller Scottish hauliers to consider what technologies, grid connections, routes, infrastructure and vehicles will best suit their needs if they move to electrify their fleets. The funding is part of the Transport Scotland’s Heavy Good Vehicle Market Readiness Fund and ...
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FCZ ArticleNorthern Powergrid wants business customers to join its flexibility providers
Northern Powergrid (NPg) is inviting companies that want to provide flexibility services to its network to attend a webinar explaining the opportunities.
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FCZ ArticleChargePoint and Eaton launch ultrafast HGV chargers
A charging point installer and an electricity network systems specialist say they have developed a combined solution for charging points that will mean they can be installed more cheaply, more quickly and in more locations, and require less space.
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FCZ ArticleGovernment science advisor finds little role for hydrogen in transport
A Net Zero Technology Outlook from the Government Office for Science has named steelmaking and chemicals as the most likely roles for hydrogen in future industries, suggesting it would only find niche uses in the transport sector.
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FCZ ArticleNew connections window to close on 26 August
Developers who want to make new connections to the high voltage electricity network have until Tuesday 26 August to submit evidence that their project is ready to go ahead, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has announced. NESO announced the closing date in accord with a promise to give potential ...
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FCZ ArticleCheshire salt caverns could become hydrogen store
Storage and transport infrastructure that would help support hydrogen as a low-carbon fuel for UK industry and transport customers have taken a step forward.
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FCZ ArticleUpdate on hydrogen strategy promises ‘fast-track delivery’ and stresses role in heavy transport
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has begun a consultation on the case for blending hydrogen into the existing gas network.
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FCZ ArticleHouse of Lords report urges transport sector to speed up decarbonisation plans
Transport should be a key target for efforts to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, a new report from a House of Lords committee has indicated. The report, will add to pressure for expanded low emission zones, and a switch to electric or hydrogen vehicles, because those changes would reduce air pollution ...
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FCZ ArticleGovernment urged to back hydrogen for HGVs
Hydrogen UK has called on the government to focus policy support for hydrogen on “high value cases”, including for HGVs, which it says need hydrogen for its “unique advantages for payload and refuelling time”.
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FCZ ArticleNational Energy System Operator models electric future for heavy vehicle sector
Batteries are the more attractive future for low-carbon HGVs, rather than hydrogen vehicles, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) indicated in an annual ‘forward look’ at the country’s energy future. What is more, it said, hydrogen use in other heavy transport sectors, such as buses, has declined recently.
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FCZ ArticleMidlands Net Zero Hub boosts nuclear option to meet its industry and transport energy needs
Could the Midlands ‘Golden Logistics Triangle’ rely on small local nuclear power plants for electrification and vehicle charging?
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FCZ ArticleHeathrow blackout report reveals Critical National Infrastructure sites not prioritised by energy networks
A report from the GB National Energy System Operator (NESO) on the recent blackout at Heathrow Airport has sobering news for sectors, like freight distribution networks, that are among the UK’s 13 Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) sectors.
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FCZ ArticleCATL sets out vision of fast-growing eHGV industry driven by ‘battery swap’ regime
The head of Chinese battery maker CATL has set out for the UK Financial Times a vision of a truck industry in China that would be 50% electric by 2028, with trucks regularly swapping e-HGV batteries rather than recharging them.
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FCZ ArticleElectricity networks launch online tool to smooth new connections for vehicle operators
Electricity networks have created an online tool intended to help transport businesses take forward new or upgraded network connections so they can install electric vehicle charging points. The tool is provided by the Energy Networks Association (ENA), which includes both transmission network operators (operating countrywide high-voltage ‘motorway’ networks) and local ...
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FCZ ArticleWill hydrogen supply grow to meet demand? IEA’s annual market check finds ‘growth uncertainty’
Will Europe’s green hydrogen production industry grow fast enough to make hydrogen easily available for freight operators with hydrogen vehicles, and other new hydrogen users? The latest report on the region’s hydrogen industry reveals doubt about the speed of growth.
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FCZ ArticleCCC calls for lower electricity prices to cut carbon emissions, calls heavy vehicle transformation ‘nascent’
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has put the role of cheaper electricity upfront in its annual report to parliament on progress in the UK’s trajectory to Net Zero by 2050.
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FCZ ArticleBoost to East Coast hydrogen network plans after regulator agrees £91m for FEED work
East Coast Hydrogen is set to spend around £96m on front end engineering design (FEED) for a regional hydrogen transport and storage network after energy regulator Ofgem confirmed it would allow three gas networks leading the project to commit innovation funding.
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FCZ ArticleTrucking hydrogen to users is not an enabler for a nascent hydrogen industry, reports find
HGVs are unlikely to be the missing link in building a hydrogen industry as fuel transporters. That was the message from an evaluation of two government programmes aimed at stimulating the hydrogen market, which found securing hydrogen at volume and at an economic price and transporting it to the point ...
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FCZ ArticleReFuels reports first profitable quarter as it takes on more fleet customers
Bio-CNG supplier ReFuels has said it wants to “unlock … truck order plans that are being held back by a lack of Bio-CNG refuelling infrastructure” and as a consequence it will narrow its development focus to “timely delivery of the most important sites”. It expects to raise £25 million by ...