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2 Feb, 9 tweets, 5 min read
📰 Our new report, *Charging Up*, has been covered in various media today 👇

@BBCBusiness: Electric cars: Rollout of charging points still too slow.

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bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
Bloomberg Green (@climate): U.K. Needs to Install Electric Car Chargers Five Times Faster to Hit Goals, via @rachelmorison.

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bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
@LBC: Government pledges £20m boost for on-street EV charging points, via @MaddieGoodfell2.

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lbc.co.uk/news/governmen…
@edie: Report: UK needs to install five times as many EV charging points to meet climate goals.

[five times as many per year]

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edie.net/news/11/Report…
@Telegraph: Electric car chargers need to be rolled out five times quicker to support 2030 petrol ban, @BySamMeadows.

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/0…
@BusinessGreen: 'Charging up': Could the offshore wind revolution provide the routemap for EV charging networks?

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businessgreen.com/news-analysis/…
@SkyNews: Electric vehicle charge points 'must be fitted five times quicker' to hit 2030 target.

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news.sky.com/story/electric…
@UtilityWeek: UK risks EV charging blackspots without funding boost.

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utilityweek.co.uk/uk-risks-ev-ch…
@TweetsByCurrent: Government tenders needed to support fivefold increase in public EV charger rollout

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current-news.co.uk/news/governmen…

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2 Feb
🚨 New @Policy_Exchange report out today, *Charging Up*, by me & @WRNicolle

Policies to deliver a comprehensive network of public EV chargepoints

Foreword by @SimonClarkeMP & edited by @BenMcAleenan

Here's a summary thread 👇

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On our website here 👇
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/ch…
Number of public EV chargepoints needed is set to skyrocket, driven by the UK's ban on new petrol + diesel cars and vans by 2030 (and all hybrids by 2035).

Various forecasts show 300,000 - 500,000 chargepoints required by 2030, compared to ~35,000 today.

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During the 2020s, the UK must install public EV chargepoints 5 times faster than the current rate:

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26 Dec 20
What's in the EU-UK Brexit deal on energy?

It may be Boxing day, but I've had a quick look 👇

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gov.uk/government/pub…
Title VIII: Energy is the key section (page 156 onwards)

▶️ Standard stuff on commitment to competition, unbundling and customer choice

▶️ UK Capacity Market no longer needs to try to integrate overseas Capacity providers & vice versa

(Article ENER.6, Clause 3, page. 160)

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▶️ Existing "exemptions" for selected interconnectors will continue to apply.

This means that these interconnectors can continue to sell capacity rights ahead of time, rather than all through close to real-time markets.

(Article ENER.11, page 162)

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24 Dec 20
@10DowningStreet has published its summary of the agreements between UK and EU

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gov.uk/government/pub…
Here's summary of energy section (Title VIII).

More detail on market coupling (trading on elec interconnectors). Aim to implement new arrangements on price coupling by April'22 (presumably through new market coupling platform)

Implies some loss of efficiency in short term.

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Looks like arrangements for gas trading will remain relatively similar to today, with UK industry retaining access to PRISMA platform for trading gas capacity.

prisma-capacity.eu

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24 Dec 20
The European Commission’s summary of the impact of the U.K.-EU free trade agreement on the Energy sector 👇
Not much detail yet but looks like something on preserving efficient trading on interconnectors, preserving cooperation on nuclear power, and new mechanisms to cooperate on renewables, which is particularly important for offshore wind in the North Sea.
EU view on the consequences of Brexit for UK-EU energy trade.

UK outside of EU IEM, EU ETS and Euratom (as we knew)

ec.europa.eu/info/sites/inf…
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24 Dec 20
Is this what's will be in the Brexit deal on Energy?

@GuidoFawkes
claims to have a UK internal assessment of the Brexit deal.

Taking with a pinch of salt until official.

Energy section starts on page 13,.

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scribd.com/document/48904…
Columns are labelled "UK ask", "EU ask", "UK or EU win".

Looks like something on market coupling, but I doubt full continuity.

Plus cooperation on North Sea renewable energy projects

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Also reportedly a deal on Civil Nuclear.

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14 Dec 20
UK Energy White Paper is here.

I'll tweet the key points here👇

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Link to press release:
gov.uk/government/new…
UK commits to an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) from 1 January 2021.

Seems like a win for @beisgovuk, as @hmtreasury was known to be keen on a carbon tax

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Exploring the RAB model for new nuclear, as per @emilygosden article in @thetimes this morning

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thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/b…
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