National Grid has joined seven major utilities in the Electric Highway Coalition, which will enable more EV charging stations near highways across the US.
Each utility in the Coalition is taking steps to provide charging solutions in its service territories and collaborating to ensure accessibility and reliability.
The effort will support a network of fast-charging stations along major highways from the Atlantic Coast, through the Midwest and South and into the Gulf and Plains regions. Other participating utilities in the Coalition include American Electric Power, Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Entergy Corporation, Eversource, Southern Co and the Tennessee Valley Authority. In the North East, only 2%-3% of all new vehicle sales are electric today, said National Grid US president, Badar Khan.
17 May 2021
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The UN climate summit in November must be the COP that consigns coal power to history if the world is serious about achieving the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement, COP26 President Alok Sharma said last week. In response, the UK s Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) said that nuclear energy is the best low-carbon baseload replacement for coal, while US Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry highlighted the development of small modular reactors.
Sharma and Kerry at their meeting yesterday (Image: Twitter)
Sharma made the announcement in a speech titled
Pick the Planet that he delivered on 14 May at Whitelee Windfarm, near Glasgow - the host city for COP26. He noted that the UK has reduced its use of coal for electricity generation from 40% in 2012 to 2% currently, and plans to phase it out completely by 2024. It is also working directly with governments and through international organisations to end coal financing.
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