This week’s blog compares the number of electric cars, including hybrid variants, sold in Ireland to date in 2020 against the same period for 2019. It shows that in January, EV registrations rose by 73.6% to 5,739 compared with January 2019. In February, sales rose by 13.3% compared with the same month last year. Overall, for the YTD EV sales are up 53.0%, with almost all growth coming in January to coincide with the release of the new vehicle registration plate.
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Net zero corporates and ESG
Help us understand your business decarbonisation challenges
Are you a large business impacted by the challenge of increasing energy costs and decarbonisation targets? If the answer is yes, then we’d love your help to find out more about the challenges you are facing. We recently published an insight paper on the challenging economic climate that businesses are...
E-mobility and low carbon
2022’s most exciting ‘Charts of the Week’
Some of our team have looked back throughout 2022 and picked their most exciting ‘Chart of the Week’.Their choices include exploring green tariffs, wholesale gas prices, CfD allocation round 4 and the MHHS Implementation Levy. It’s My Birthday – Two years of Dynamic Containment Picked by Tom Faulkner, Head of...
E-mobility and low carbon
Another one bites the dust: Plug-in car grant ends
Last week the government announced the plug-in car grant scheme for electric vehicles (EVs) closed, having previously confirmed funding until 2022-23. Why? Well, the government stated it would allow it to concentrate funding towards what it called the main barriers to the EV transition, including public charging and supporting the...
Low carbon generation
RESS 2 by numbers
Last Friday, RESS 2 auction results were published, with nearly 2GW of new renewables projects successful in getting awarded a contract. We have put together an infographic that explains the auction outcome and what these projects will bring to our electricity system. We have also released a report with Wind...
Commercial and market outlook
Ofgem outlines thinking on protecting credit balances and RO payments
This article is an extract from our Energy Spectrum publication issued on Monday 25 April. If you are interested in receiving critical policy, regulatory, market and transactional developments across the energy sector, and would like a free full sample of Energy Spectrum, please request a copy here. You only need...
E-mobility and low carbon
Expanded guidance provides more clarity on electricity supply to EVs
In a burgeoning EV-centric world, Ofgem’s updated guidance on supplying electricity to electric vehicles (EV) should provide clarity for many organisations around the supply arrangements in place for different charging scenarios. Due to their mobile nature, EVs don’t fit in with the legislative model that defines an electricity consumer by...
Commercial and market outlook
EU Commission publishes climate change mitigation taxonomy
An excerpt from our European Weekly Bulletin, part of our Energy Spectrum Europe package. On Wednesday 2 February, the EU Commission presented its Taxonomy Complementary Climate Delegated Act on climate change mitigation and adaptation covering certain gas and nuclear activities. The commission states that it aims to prevent greenwashing and...
Energy storage and flexibility
Emerging utility business models
This article is from our latest Energy Spectrum and the January 2022 issue of EEnergy Informer, a newsletter edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi of Menlo Energy Economics and editor of Variable Generation, Flexible Demand. As numerous prior articles have pointed out, the traditional utility business model seems to be on its...
