A geospatial committee will work with the government to make charge-point data more accessible for local authorities and planners. The expansion of the UK’s electric car charging network needs to focus on more data-driven location evidence, according to a new government report. The paper, Getting To The Point: Accelerating EV Charge Point Rollout Through Geospatial […]
Hydrogen heating trial treats us like guinea pigs – residents – EQ Mag
“I wake up in the night thinking about it,” Maria Morgan says. “We’re guinea pigs.” Maria is on the front line of the UK’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. Her house in Whitby in Ellesmere Port, north-west England, is one of 2,000 homes earmarked to have its supply of natural […]
Hydrogen could ‘nearly double’ cost of heating a home compared with gas – EQ Mag Pro
Using hydrogen would add about 70% to home energy bills, according to a report by a renewable energy charity Ministers’ plans to pin the UK’s energy hopes on hydrogen could nearly double the cost of heating a home by the end of the decade compared with natural gas, research has shown. Using hydrogen for home […]
Innovators look to solve UK’s long-duration energy storage challenge – EQ Mag Pro
The UK has become an undisputed global leader in energy storage deployments, driven on in the past six years by the growing business case for batteries on the grid. As of the end March 2022, there were a cumulative 1,700MW of battery storage installations in the country and 446MW of that total was installed during […]
SAE Signs £40m Contract For One Of Uk’s Largest Battery Storage Projects At Uskmouth – EQ Mag Pro
SAE is delighted to announce that it has entered an agreement with Energy Optimisation Solutions and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners via their portfolio company Uskmouth Energy Storage Limited (’UES’) to deliver a 230MW / 460MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at the Uskmouth site. This will be one of the largest BESS developments in the UK. […]
UK’s partnership with India beacon in stormy seas: British PM – EQ Mag Pro
New Delhi : The UK’s partnership with India is a “beacon” in “stormy seas” at a time the world is facing growing threats from autocratic states which seek to undermine democracy, choke off fair trade and trample on sovereignty, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. The British high commission said Johnson is expected […]
UK’s National Grid to get grid stability services from renewables for first time – EQ Mag Pro
National Grid ESO will procure stability services from renewable generators. Starting from today, wind, solar and wave generators will be able to provide stability services to the grid. Until now, only conventional generators delivered this kind of service. As confirmed today by the National Grid ESO, the change to the grid code aims to enable […]
Boris Johnson to announce hike in UK’s climate finance at COP26 Summit – EQ Mag Pro
At the World Leaders Summit opening ceremony, the UK PM will urge countries to take concrete steps on phasing out coal, accelerate transition to e-vehicles, and halt deforestation. Glasgow: The world must move from aspiration to action to limit rising global temperatures, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell world leaders at the COP26 climate […]
Blue Hydrogen Backlash ‘Has Ring of Fracking Row’: Professor Defends Damning Study – EQ Mag Pro
Academic research ‘cautious and robust’ says co-author amid backlash he claims mirrors shale gas controversy a decade ago. The row over a damning study of the climate credentials of blue hydrogen mirrors a pushback against early critics of shale gas fracking a decade ago, claimed an academic involved in both controversies as he mounted a […]
Green Light Given For UK’s First Hydrogen Blend in Public Natural-Gas Network
Village in northwest England to receive a 20% H2 blend for ten months in what the local gas distributor describes as a ‘ground-breaking green energy trial’. A village in northeast England is to receive a blend of 20% hydrogen in its natural-gas network as part of a “ground-breaking green energy trial” after the UK’s Health […]