An independent evaluation of the UK government’s Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme (GHGVS) has found that around 19% of a possible 600,000 properties made applications for the initiative.
Water and wastewater regulator Ofwat has launched its £4 million Water Discovery Challenge calling on support from a range of sectors, including energy, to innovate within the water industry.
At the start of the week, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) “named and shamed” a number of energy companies that had the lowest voucher redemption rates for the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS).
A consortium headed by Fuuse has received nearly £200,000 in grant funding from the UK government to support the development of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology.
The UK Government has called on Good Energy, Utilita and Scottish Power to increase Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) voucher redemptions to ensure customers with prepayment meters are able to redeem £400 in support on energy bills.
Business and Energy Secretary Grant Shapps has called on energy suppliers to stop force fitting prepayment meters with many doing “nowhere near enough” to support vulnerable customers.
The UK Government has reached a crucial milestone in the decarbonisation of its transportation fleet, with 25.5% of all its cars now regarded ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEV).
Kaluza, Volkswagen, OVO Energy and Indra have launched a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) bidirectional charging programme aiming to further develop business models.
The UK Government has injected £32.5 million to implement clean energy solutions into various industrial sectors as part of the second phase of the Red Diesel Replacement Competition.