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New 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 ...
Transport 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 ...
Northern 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.
ChargePoint 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.
Government 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.
New 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 ...
Cheshire 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.
Update 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.
House 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 ...
Government 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”.
National 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.
Midlands 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?