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All Energy articles – Page 2
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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 ...
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FCZ ArticleChargePoint and Eaton announce partnership to accelerate EV charging progress
EV charging solutions provider ChargePoint and power management solutions firm Eaton have announced a partnership to accelerate EV charging infrastructure in the US, Canada and Europe. Drawing on both company’s experiences, the collaboration seeks to simplify EV charging by developing new technologies. Rick Wilmer, CEO of ChargePoint, ...
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FCZ ArticleStationary battery provider ready to consider eHGV batteries for ‘second use’
Allye installation at Killington Lakes services on the M6 near Kendall Will batteries from eHGVs find a ‘second life’ market in stationary grid applications? Battery company Allye Energy has launched upsized stationary battery systems containing up to 18 repurposed EV battery packs, dubbed Mega Max, and FCZ ...
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FCZ ArticleReFuels opens second refuelling station in Scotland, plans to double bio-CNG pumped through expanded station fleet by 2028
Bio-CNG supplier ReFuels has opened a new refuelling station at Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland.
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FCZ ArticleFalling battery prices due to EV overcapacity are benefitting other sectors
Battery costs are falling because of overcapacity in the electric vehicle market, but revenues from using them in the electricity sector are increasing, recent reports show.
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FCZ ArticleFollow China to get cost parity for e-HGVs, says report for government
In some regions and vehicle categories, including heavy- and medium-duty trucks in China, and vans in India and China, electric vehicles are cheaper over their lifetimes than their diesel counterparts. In other regions, cost parity is expected before 2033, according to new research funded by the UK government’s Department for ...