All articles by Janet Wood. – Page 2
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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 ArticleReport for DfT says more financial and other support needed to boost renewable fuels
The government could increase the proportion of renewable fuel used in heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and other heavy duty vehicles (HDVs) by increasing financial incentives for users and making the fuel easier to source. But it will also have to address the technical and operational concerns of vehicles manufacturers and ...
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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 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 ArticleGrocery distributors expect electric to supply van fleet by 2035, HGV fleet by 2040
The food sector can be an important player in transport system decarbonisation, the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) says in a recent review. IGD said companies in the food system should engage with broader programmes for electric vehicles and plan for their widespread uptake, subject to policies being in place, ...
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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 ArticleIndustrial Strategy is ‘jam tomorrow’ for freight industry, with plan for sector and connections reform promised later this year
The government has promised this year it will publish “a new plan for freight and logistics … so that the sector can continue to play its part in growing the economy” as part of its newly published Industrial Strategy.
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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 ArticleIEA says predictable routes could electrify quickly and shared charging cuts costs dramatically
Falling battery costs and higher utilisation of charging points are key to reducing the cost of running e-HGVs, and electrification is likely to proceed via fast take-up in specific use-cases with predictable routes according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Global EV Outlook 2025.