Matt Western, Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington since 2017, made his appeal to the chief executives of Ecotricity, POD Point and BP Chargemaster, which he said are the three largest public EV charging infrastructure networks in the country offering rapid DC charging.
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The facility will cost a total of £180 million and is also backed by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Siemens Bank and Natixis, with Barclays providing an equity bridging loan.
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Disruption to travel, no access to money, problems with telecommunications and petrol pumps rendered out of service – these are just some of the issues that would be faced by the public in the event of a blackout. “Catastrophic” is the word used by Peter Chandler (pictured below), project lead for the Distributed ReStart project at National Grid ESO, to describe the extent of the problems caused in this situation. Nor would the effects be over in a hurry, with Chandler indicating that restoring full power across the whole country could take up to a week in a “Black Start” scenario.
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One of the main subjects for debate was the governance and regulation of the energy system. Energy Systems Catapult head of innovation Eric Brown (pictured) kicked off the discussion by laying out the scale of the challenge: “Broadly speaking, we’ve inherited the current world from the 1980s when the current frameworks were put in place. And those frameworks were based on the nature of the system and business models as they existed at the time.”
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Distribution network operators (DNOs) could meet the challenges of decarbonisation under the current model, one speaker explained. But doing so would be “horrendously expensive”, requiring huge investments in new capacity to meet peaks in demand.
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In 2015 we embarked on a project with a 2030 horizon, focussing on the transformation of the GB electricity system to enable the country to respond to the challenges of decarbonisation. By we, I mean the Energy Systems Catapult (for whom I work), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); but we were not alone. Yes, we led, managed and supported the project but we didn’t do this in isolation; there was a broad range of organisations from across the power sector involved, in this example of genuinely collaborative working.
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Whilst substantial progress has been made in the electricity sector, the decarbonisation of transport and heat is further behind – and these two topics took centre stage at September’s Network Asset Performance Conference. In terms of switching road transport from fossil fuels to electricity, there is less concern about producing enough megawatt-hours to meet the overall increase in demand from electric vehicles (EV) than ensuring there is the network capacity to deliver the power.
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Calling on energy leaders to recognise the importance of developing infrastructure that supports low-cost, high-performance 5G technology, Chapman said that 5G roll out is at risk of being hindered by slow infrastructure deployment.
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Uniper, which currently operates four coal-fired power stations, plans to bring the Datteln-4 plan online this summer after a protracted 12 year construction programme and technical difficulties.
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