CONNECTED KERB ANNOUNCES £1.9 BILLION EV CHARGING ROLLOUT

Reading-based electric vehicle infrastructure specialist Connected Kerb has announced one of the most ambitious rollouts of EV charging the UK has ever seen with a budget of £1.9 billion.

Connected Kerb will see 190,000 public onstreet EV chargers installed by 2030.

The unprecedented investment, says the firm, will revolutionise access to EV charging for the tens of millions of drivers without off-street parking and support massmarket charging for workplaces and fleets.

The company has secured new partnerships for thousands of public onstreet EV chargers across the UK over the next 10 years.

A West Sussex tender is believed to be the UK’s largest ever deployment by a local authority.

Deals for a further 30,000 chargers are expected to conclude soon, as part of the

EV ownership in the UK is skyrocketing, but there are currently only around 1,000 public-access on-street chargers outside London and just one for every 52 EVs on UK roads.

As a result, those without off-street parking or a dedicated parking space with domestic power supply – accounting for 62 per cent of drivers – are being left behind in the EV transition.

UK’s largest residential land sale transaction this year completed in Swindon

What is expected to be the UK’s largest residential land sale transaction in 2021 was completed on behalf of the landowner by property agents Avison Young.

The 365-acre site at Lotmead Farm, Swindon was offered for sale by Ainscough Strategic Land, and has been acquired in a joint venture partnership of Countryside and Sovereign Housing Association.

Outline planning permission for the delivery of an up to 2,500-home scheme has already been secured for the joint venture partnership.

Thirty per cent of the scheme will be affordable, together with additional units which will be delivered specifically for Sovereign. Up to 400 homes will be delivered for private rented accommodation.

Good Energy changes tack as it puts its entire renewable asset portfolio up for sale

Good Energy has revealed that it is planning to sell its entire 47.5MW renewable asset portfolio as it shifts from being a renewable utility towards becoming an energy services provider.

The company outlined a clear strategic direction to capitalise on a rapidly growing market in decentralised, digitised clean energy and transport services based on 100 per cent ‘real’ renewable power.

The company said it aims to lead in selected areas of electric transport and decentralised generation as the energy transition continues to gather pace.

The company said this change of direction had received strong shareholder support throughout its ultimately successful defence of the hostile takeover attempt by Stroudbased Ecotricity last year.

The company said it aims to lead in selected areas of electric transport and decentralised generation as the energy transition continues to gather pace.

Last Autumn Good Energy commissioned renowned artist Luke Jerram to create an experimental light projection at the UK’s first ever wind farm to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

The piece, which featured moving images depicting nature, messages to world leaders and audio of children’s voices, was projected onto a wind turbine at Delabole in Cornwall, the birthplace of UK renewables.