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All new-build homes could soon be fitted with an electric car chargepoint, the government has outlined today (15 July 2019) in a public consultation on changing building regulations in England. The consultation comes alongside a package of announcements to support electric vehicle drivers and improve the experience of charging. The proposals…

July 16, 2019 – Boulder, CO – A new report from Navigant Research tracks data on known grid-tied and remote microgrid projects in the proposal, planning, and deployed stages across six regions worldwide. The 16th edition of the Navigant Research’s global microgrid database highlights an uptick in rural electrification projects…

DriveElectric, an electric vehicle (EV) specialist with over 20 years of leasing and electric vehicle experience, is celebrating the breadth of valuable learning gained about smart charging, and in particular the behaviours of EV drivers, from its involvement in the Electric Nation trial. DriveElectric recruited 700 EV drivers to take…

We Scots are often guilty of failing to enunciate our Ts. If you ever hear us referring to a “bah-ery”, we’re talking about energy storage systems. So we may drop our Ts when pronouncing the word, but there’s one “T” that Scottish batteries have a prime opportunity to support: the…

TLT has advised Blackfinch Investments Limited, a leading renewable energy investor, on the acquisition of a new solar farm project in North Wales. The site, located near to Pwllheli on the Lleyn Peninsula in North West Wales, has the planning consent, grid connection offer and option for lease in place…

Dubai Festival City Mall will install solar panels on the roofs of two of its stores, to generate up to 6.4 GWh of solar power. The solar panels, which will be installed on the roofs of IKEA and Carrefour, will provide up to 30% of the electricity requirements of the…

By storing energy we can address the challenge of guaranteeing flexible and reliable supply from weather-dependant energy sources – cutting bills, reducing carbon emissions and delivering on the promise of the energy transition. Energy generation hit the headlines in May as the UK went two weeks without burning coal for…

We all love to travel and we all want to do our bit for the planet – but how do we do both at the same time? One of the biggest challenges around this is how to find somewhere to go and have fun without feeling guilty about the consequences…

Forget electric. Forget petrol. Forget diesel. The future of car fuel lives in our algae, and a meeting of British and European minds is paving the way to get us there through the ‘All-Gas’ project. Co-funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Program, ‘All-Gas’ has moved on from its 2011 beginnings…

U.S. offshore wind developers will need to optimize turbine advancements, supply chains and capacity markets to counter falling tax credits and beat the record U.S. price set in Massachusetts, industry experts told the US Offshore Wind 2019 Conference. The 800 MW Vineyard Wind project, co-owned by Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen…