John Lubbock

National Grid has announced a £650,000 scheme to power electric vehicle (EV) charging points for motorway drivers and increase the capacity of the local grid in Northampton. 

The UK government has published new Electric Vehicle (EV) charging point statistics showing the number of installed devices increased by 8% in the first three months of 2023. 

Ørsted A/S announced an increased operating profit for Q1 2023 of £814 million, but said that lower prices and the UK energy price cap had offset its increased renewable generation from new assets. 

National Grid has announced an investment of £700,000 in the Newhouse primary substation where a second high voltage transformer is being installed. 

MPs from the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee have welcomed the government’s ambition on nuclear energy and urged it to move ahead with a proposed nuclear power station at Wylfa. 

Oil giant BP announced profits for the first quarter of 2023 of £4 billion, and a further share buyback of £1.4 billion. 

The Royal Navy has announced the installation of a first-of-its-kind in Europe ‘turbine in a box’ at its Liverpool headquarters. 

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) announced new figures showing that the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on UK roads grew to 1.1 million. 

Current± sat down with Lawrence Slade, who was appointed as chief executive of the Energy Networks Association (ENA) in December 2022, to talk about their push to achieve more investment in innovation to the power grid as the industry looks forward to a massive increase in connections over the next decade. 

Takeaway delivery company Just Eat has announced that it will replace 175 diesel vehicles in its corporate sales fleet with electric vehicles (EVs) by 2025.