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Battery storage, electric vehicle (EV) charging and related smart tech are to be the focus of new training and apprenticeships launched by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in partnership with Solar Energy UK.
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12:00 PM March 13, 2021
The former Electricity Lighting Station was opened in March 1896 to supply Islington with energy
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When it comes to fuel poverty, it seems desperately unfair that some people in Islington still have a top-up electricity key (pre-payment metre) because a monthly tariff is always better value.
Years ago, the switch to the National Grid brought electricity prices down and made supplies more reliable.
In fact, from 1896-1969 Islington Electricity Department was generating electricity for the area in a building not far from today’s waste recycling centre. Now there’s a move to decentralise our energy supply again, which will also cut carbon.
Hackney Town Hall entrance. Picture: Hackney Council
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In a bid to reduce fuel poverty, Hackney Council is relaunching a group buying scheme to help homeowners install solar panels.
In 2019 the green programme, Solar Together London, saw more than 200 of the borough s homeowners sign up for more affordable access to the cleaner energy through group investment.
Out of 13 London boroughs which took part, Hackney had the highest rate of participation in the scheme, which forms part of the Mayor of London s Energy for Londoners and Hackney Council’s Hackney Green Homes group-buying programmes.