EV owners can use their car to become active members of the new energy landscape, one made up of local microgrids, flexible electricity networks, demand side response, and variable ‘Time of Use’ tariffs.
Community energy groups can deliver low-carbon heating projects at lower cost than the private sector, in addition to bringing benefits such as community ownership, job creation, and reduced energy costs.
Over the coming decades we must transform the ways that we heat and power our lives. Switching to electric vehicles and electric heating will have a huge impact on reducing carbon emissions, but it will also put a tremendous strain on an aging electricity network which already struggles to handle peak loads. To keep the electrons flowing, we must think smart.
Kayla Ente, the founder and CEO of Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative (BHESCo), has been appointed as an honorary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).
UK based solar battery company Moixa is working alongside UK Power Networks, the Distribution Network Operator for the Southeast of England, on a pioneering initiative taking place in the Worthing area.