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Strengthen red route pollution monitoring to save lives, says London air report

Envirotec Magazine

The report makes a number of recommendations to the Mayor of London to tackle the city’s air pollution, including: Strengthen monitoring of pollution from London’s red routes and incorporate new monitoring of air quality emissions for the Silvertown Tunnel project.

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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

This post is the fourth in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Savannah M. Communities across the U.S. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al.,

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£1.2 million government funding aims for lower-emissions freight

Envirotec Magazine

million in UK government funding. The winners include Skyports Deliveries, who will use drones to improve island-to-island connectivity in the Orkney Islands, and Electric Assisted Vehicles, who are developing a four-wheel, electrically assisted lightweight delivery vehicle to help reduce road emissions.

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Forced electricity prepayment re-authorised in Britain

Smart Energy International

Energy regulator Ofgem has re-authorised installation of prepayment meters on an involuntary basis by three suppliers, subject to certain conditions. The three suppliers are EDF, Octopus Energy and Scottish Power, which have been authorised as meeting the conditions and further must follow a comprehensive set of new rules.

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Unlocking smart meter data for research

Smart Energy International

James O’Toole explains how the UK’s Smart Energy Research Lab is enabling researcher access to smart meter data. With over 21 million smart gas and electric meters now in Great Britain’s homes, there is a growing wealth of half-hourly and daily domestic energy use data available to those who can access it.

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Amnesty International: Dow’s failure to offer remedy for Bhopal disaster has created a “sacrifice zone”

Envirotec Magazine

This catastrophe remains immediate and urgent for people whose own health is ruined, or whose children were born with disabilities or who are being poisoned now through the contaminated local soil and water,” said Mark Dummett, Amnesty International’s Head of Business and Human Rights.

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Powering ahead securely: Why EV charging stations need better protection

Smart Energy International

Jeff Hutchins, president and chief technology officer at EOS Linx, writes on the electric vehicle (EV) landscape and how its booming growth necessitates, now more than ever, a renewed focus on cybersecurity measures. Electric vehicles are the future. They’re not monitored by utility workers who are always on-premise.