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Event
  • Session
  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018
  • 15:22 - 15:22
  • Duration: 16 mins
  • Publication date: 05 Jun 2018
  • Location: Network Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

EVs have reached the tipping point.  With all new petrol and diesel vehicles banned from 2040, 50 per cent of cars sold in the UK will be electric vehicles by 2026, government predicts. Against this backdrop of transformational change, how will vehicles be fuelled? How will the market evolve and what innovation, investment and infrastructure will be required to support the development of sustainable transport? This session will explore these challenges, and assess the opportunities EVs create for the management of a smart, flexible energy system.

Keywords:
  • climate change
  • decarbonisation
  • electricity
  • energy
  • greenhouse gas
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • renewable biomethane fuel

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Speaker

  • Mike  Foster

    Mike Foster

    Energy and Utilities Alliance, Chief Executive

    Mike Foster is CEO of Energy and Utilities Alliance, a not-for-profit trade association based in the West Midlands. He holds a degree in economics, a post-graduate certificate in education and is a Chartered Management Accountant. Having started work in the car industry, he taught accountancy, economics and statistics for six years before becoming MP for Worcester (1997-2010). He served as a Minister for four years, under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, latterly as Minister for International Development. Before heading up EUA, he was Head of Communications at the international charity WaterAid.He is the non-executive Chairman of Affordable Warmth Solutions, a community interest company that delivers fuel poverty solutions across the UK.
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