DOE Selects 2 Projects to Turn Previous Nuclear Weapons Testing Land into Solar Energy Generation Sites

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the first proposed projects selected under the Department’s Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative, an effort to repurpose parts of DOE-owned lands that were previously used in the nation’s nuclear weapons program into sites of clean-energy generation.

The initiative also supports the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to leveraging federal properties to support the buildout of utility-scale clean energy projects.

The DOE will enter into lease negotiations with two solar energy developers for carbon-free electricity generation projects within the 890-square-mile Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site to produce 400 MW of solar power, enough to power 70,000 homes.

In total:

NorthRenew Energy Partners proposes installing photovoltaics and battery storage on approximately 2,000 acres of land at the INL site to produce more than 300 MW of carbon-free electricity.
Spitfire proposes to install photovoltaics and battery storage on approximately 500 acres of land at the INL site to produce 100 MW of carbon-free electricity.

As part of the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative, the DOE has issued requests for qualifications (RFQs) to lease land at four additional sites: the Hanford site in Washington, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, the Nevada National Security Site in Nevada, and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

The DOE intends to open subsequent RFQs for the INL site to solicit additional generation-ready clean energy projects for the land remaining available at the site. The DOE will also continue to engage and partner with industry, Tribal nations, communities, stakeholders, regulators, and others to implement a process for further development of clean energy projects on DOE land.

Source: Energytech.com

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British Gas offers half price electricity

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British Gas has introduced PeakSave Green Flex events, offering customers more chances to save on energy bills and support a greener grid this summer.

During these events, which occur when there is plenty of renewable energy available, customers can get half price electricity.

These events will last for one to two hours and customers will be notified either the day before or on the morning of the event.

All PeakSave customers are eligible and must opt in to participate.

British Gas will use its own forecasting to schedule the events to test potential savings and grid impact.

Both new and existing PeakSave customers can benefit from the discount, which will be credited to their energy bills.

There is no requirement to change usual activities, but more savings can be achieved by doing energy-intensive tasks during these events.

Additionally, all PeakSave customers will continue to enjoy half price electricity every Sunday without needing to opt in.

So far, British Gas has paid more than £11 million to over 600,000 customers, resulting in savings of 326 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and shifting 11,799MWh of electricity to Sundays.

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Russian ally to become ‘strategic partner’ of US

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The US and Armenia have announced that they intend to elevate their bilateral relations to the level of “strategic partnership,” with Washington helping Yerevan with trade, military matters, its judicial system and democracy.

The landlocked Caucasus country has long been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance led by Russia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, however, froze Yerevan’s membership in CSTO after blaming Russia for not stopping Azerbaijan from reclaiming the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Russian peacekeepers had been deployed to the region in 2020, after Azerbaijan reclaimed parts of Nagorno-Karabakh in a conflict with the local Armenian militia. Pashinyan himself recognized Baku’s sovereignty over the region and argued that its loss had long been inevitable.

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan hosted US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia James O’Brien in Yerevan on Tuesday. A joint statement issued on the occasion “noted Armenia’s aspirations for closer cooperation with Euro-Atlantic institutions and the West.”

“The United States and Armenia reaffirmed their commitment to shared democratic values and to the goal of an Armenia that is democratic, prosperous, and peaceful,” the communique declared.

Relations between the two countries should be upgraded in the coming year, O’Brien and Mirzoyan said. Both sides will continue to expand commercial and trade ties, along with “increasing cooperation on sanctions and export controls.”

The US will offer “commercial solutions in nuclear energy and renewables” to promote Armenia’s “food security and energy independence,” according to the communique.

Washington has also promised to continue Armenia’s “defense transformation” through a long-standing partnership with the Kansas National Guard, while helping Armenian police “increase accountability and sustainability.”

Yerevan acknowledged “significant US contributions to Armenia’s justice sector reform efforts,” while the US said it would continue supporting Armenian “efforts aimed at fostering judicial impartiality, integrity and independence,” as well as institutions “focused on preventing and combating corruption and transnational organized crime.”

The US likewise pledged more funding for “a robust civil society and independent media environment” in Armenia.

Pashinyan’s government has also made overtures to France for military technology and reportedly offered his country as a possible destination for asylum-seekers turned away by the UK.

Last month, O’Brien visited Armenia’s neighbor Georgia in an effort to stop the government in Tbilisi from adopting a “foreign agents” law. His threats of sanctions and withholding funding for “supporting democracy” were ultimately unsuccessful.

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Oil Steadies as Traders Await Fed Interest Rate Decision

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Oil prices steadied as traders await Wednesday’s interest-rate decision from the Federal Reserve to gauge the economy’s strength and the trajectory of oil demand.

West Texas Intermediate swung between gains and losses before ending the session near $78 a barrel. Crude had rallied almost 3% on Monday as traders decided to “buy the dip” following a decision by OPEC+ to restore some supply this year. The initial selloff prompted the group to clarify it could pause or reverse production changes if needed.

“After recent declines, oil prices have room to recover in the short term,” Morgan Stanley analysts including Martijn Rats and Charlotte Firkins said in a note. “Nevertheless, inventories are currently higher than we expected some time ago, and on current trends, supply/demand balances will likely weaken after the third quarter.”

Traders are watching for a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision due on Wednesday. A robust economy and still-high inflation in the US have seen investors pare bets that the central bank’s pivot will happen anytime soon. The resulting strength in the dollar has added pressure to prices.

Oil has trended lower since early April on concerns about soft demand and swelling supply from outside of OPEC. Output from Russia last month stayed above a level the country had pledged to the OPEC+ alliance, even as it made the deepest cuts in more than a year.

In the US, signs of robust supplies continue. Crude output is expected to swell by 310,000 barrels a day this year to a record above 13.2 million barrels a day, about 40,000 barrels a day more than projected in May, according to a monthly Energy Information Administration report Tuesday.

OPEC maintained its forecasts for strengthening demand in the second half on continued economic growth in China and other emerging economies, the organization said in a monthly report. The International Energy Agency will release its monthly report on Wednesday.

Prices:

WTI for July delivery rose 0.2% to settle at $77.90 a barrel in New York.
Brent for August settlement advanced 0.4% to settle at $81.92 a barrel.

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Fyodor Lukyanov: Here’s what the results of the European Parliament elections tell us

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MEPs don’t call the shots, so any real change in the bloc will emerge from domestic upheavals

The European Parliament elections have shaken up the political space but won’t bring revolutionary changes at EU level. Despite the success of Euroskeptic forces in a number of countries, the composition of the representative body has not seriously changed. The main jobs in the bloc’s institutions will, as always, be distributed between the mainstream – the conservatives (EPP), socialists (S&D) and liberals (Renew).

The main conclusion is that in the two largest EU countries – France and Germany – the ruling forces no longer enjoy popular support. Macron decided not to delay but to try to reverse the trend immediately, by calling elections with a three-week campaign. Berlin’s right-wing opposition – the CDU/CSU – also called for new elections, but this is highly unlikely.

Macron is taking a risk, but he is counting on the fact that citizens tend to vote differently in European than in national elections. In the first case, voting is an opportunity to express dissatisfaction with the authorities without risking anything, because the daily life of a European does not depend on what deputies in Brussels and Strasbourg do.

The second is to elect those who will form the government and on whom, therefore, their pockets depend. In national elections, it’s the managerial experience of the candidates that counts, and so-called populists usually don’t have these skills. As a result, the outcome of national elections is usually more favorable to the mainstream. This was the case under normal and stable conditions, but now we can only dream of those.

Macron put the Ukrainian issue at the center of his campaign for the European Parliament (to the point of promising direct intervention in the fighting). This didn’t mobilize voters. In Germany, the subject also played an important role, although it wasn’t central. The CDU, which was very successful, is even more pro-Ukrainian than the Social Democrats. However, the success of the Alternative for Germany and Sarah Wagenknecht’s new party shows that this line also has its opponents – both forces oppose arming Ukraine.

Will this demonstration of skepticism by a significant part of the electorate towards involvement in the Ukrainian conflict affect the policies of the EU and its individual members? We dare say that it will not. Firstly, the modern European establishment (we are talking about large countries, in smaller countries the situation is more flexible) perceives the signals of the electorate in a peculiar way. Not in the sense that it is necessary to change course, but in the sense that (a) they have not done enough to explain the necessity of such a policy and that, (b), they have not prevented hostile (Russian) influence. So, it is not necessary to change direction, but to continue on the same course, but with redoubled efforts.

There is, however, one important nuance. Both in France and (especially) in Germany, the so-called far-right parties are still virtually isolated; they cannot participate in normal coalition politics. The common accusation is that they play the role of Putin’s ‘fifth column.’ However, the degree of their support is already such that it will not be possible to marginalize these forces indefinitely. In Germany, as commenters note, the issue will soon become a question – it is time either to ban the AfD party as “extremist” or to start treating it as an ordinary political force. So far, they are leaning towards the former, but no decision has been made. “Normalization” of these parties, as the example of Giorgia Meloni in Italy shows, may move them towards a mainstream agenda. But such an outcome is not guaranteed, it depends on a critical mass.

There is really no alternative to Western Europe’s current foreign-policy course – too much credibility has been placed on it. And the senior comrade across the ocean also backs the current course. So, they must persevere. Fluctuations are possible, but they are linked (as in the US if Trump becomes president) not to a revision of the fundamentals but to the paralysis of the system in the event of a breakthrough to real power by non-systemic forces. If, for example, Le Pen’s National Movement wins the French elections and takes over government, the ‘cohabitation’ will turn into a series of squabbles at the highest managerial level. It would be difficult to take any decisions. In other words, the alternative to current politics is not a different politics, but rather the dysfunction of any politics.

Western European politics is changing in structure, but not yet in substance. Most likely, it can only change as a result of breakdowns and upheavals that can be expected but cannot be predicted.

This article was first published by Profile.ru, translated and edited by the RT team

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Delegations from 200 cities invited to BRICS forum – Moscow

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Representatives from more than 200 cities around the world have been invited to take part in the BRICS International Municipal Forum, scheduled for August in Moscow, authorities in the Russian capital have said.

Over 5,000 participants from 126 countries and 89 Russian jurisdictions are expected to attend the event on August 27-78, with some 700 speakers at various panels and receptions, the organizers said at a press conference on Tuesday evening.

“We count on the participation of all constituent entities of the Russian Federation and our foreign partners, while we are sending out mailings to more than 200 cities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America,” Sergey Cheremin, head of Moscow’s department of foreign trade and international relations, told TASS.

The forum will be held at the Ekspocentr convention hall near the Krasnaya Presnya park in Moscow, Cheremin said. 

According to Cheremin, the program will include discussions about municipal infrastructure, sustainability of urban development, and effective resource management. Special attention will be paid to education, healthcare, culture, tourism and sports. 

“Moscow can offer participants of all events its invaluable experience in infrastructure development, which has turned Moscow into one of the most developed cities in the world,” Cheremin said. “We will definitely touch upon issues of innovation, attracting talented specialists and maintaining the competitiveness of megacities,” he added.

Chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Alexey Shaposhnikov, announced plans to sign a joint declaration with BRICS capitals and major cities.

A significant number of major corporations have confirmed their participation in the upcoming forum, with both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government (B2G) meetings in the works, said Mikhail Sverdlov, head of the BRICS+ Business Communications Foundation. 

 

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Germany’s Uniper terminates Russian gas supply deals

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German state-owned energy firm Uniper has decided on Wednesday to terminate its long-term Russian gas supply contracts, officially ending its long-term gas supply relationship with Russia’s state-owned Gazprom.

According to a statement by Uniper, the decision was made possible after an arbitration tribunal on June 7 awarded the company the right to terminate the contracts and awarded it an amount of more than 13 billion euros ($13.96 billion) in damages for the gas volumes not supplied by Gazprom Export, a unit of Gazprom, since mid-2022.

“Although only limited gas volumes had been delivered since June 2022 and no gas volumes since the end of August 2022, the long-term gas supply contracts between the two companies were still legally in force and individual contracts would have continued to exist until the mid-2030s,” it said.

After Uniper suffered “substantial losses” due to the Russian gas supply restrictions, the company initiated arbitration proceedings against Gazprom Export at the end of 2022.

The option of dispute resolution via an arbitration tribunal was contractually agreed and had in the past in respect of other disputes been invoked repeatedly by both sides, Uniper said.

The tribunal, seated in Stockholm, ruled in accordance with Swiss law. The arbitration ruling is legally binding and final, it said.

“From June 2022, Gazprom Export initially supplied less natural gas to Germany and then none, although such supplies to this day are not sanctioned by the EU,” Uniper said.

Uniper had to procure gas for its customers by other means, in some cases at “extremely high market prices, which at times led to additional costs for Uniper in the hundreds of millions of euros every day,” it said.

The company said it was only able to bear these additional costs with state support.

Uniper’s insolvency was averted with the stabilization agreement in December 2022 and the entry of the federal government as the main shareholder in Uniper.

Germany agreed to buy Fortum’s stake in gas and LNG importer, Uniper, to stabilize the firm and prevent an energy shortage.

Uniper and its partners developed Germany’s first FSRU-based LNG import facility in Wilhelmshaven.

German LNG terminal operator Deutsche Energy Terminal operates this facility and the Brunsbüttel terminal, as well as the Stade-FSRU terminal which is expected to receive its first cargo in the second half of this year, and the upcoming second Wilhelmshaven facility.

“Our termination of the contracts with Gazprom Export is the latest in a series of consistent decisions over the last three years,” Michael Lewis, CEO of Uniper said in the statement.

“During this time, Uniper has written off its share in the financing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, its stake in the Russian subsidiary Unipro, and allowed its coal supply contracts with Russia to expire,” he said.

“Since then, Uniper has worked hard to diversify its gas business and is now well positioned with its global LNG portfolio and pipeline gas supplies from various regions,” Lewis said.

 

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Clean Energy boosts Boron LNG capacity with launch of third train

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US LNG supplier Clean Energy Fuels has completed construction of a third production train at its LNG plant in Boron, California, boosting the plant’s capacity by 50 percent.

According to Clean Energy, the Boron plant, the largest plant of its kind in the Southwest US, now has the capacity to produce up to 270,000 gallons of LNG every day.

The addition of the third production train will allow the supply to meet the growing demand for bulk LNG by customers looking to decarbonize everything from city buses to large containerships, the firm said.

The facility also features one 1.8 million-gallon LNG storage tank.

Image: Clean Energy Fuels

Clean Energy’s customer, Pasha Hawaii, is now operating three LNG-powered containerships out of the Ports of Long Beach, Oakland, and Honolulu.

The volume of fuel that George II, George III, and Janet Marie use has grown from 526,486 gallons of LNG for the month of August 2022 when Pasha Hawaii’s first LNG-powered ship was commissioned, to 2,115,726 gallons in April 2024, Clean Energy said.

Besides the Boron LNG plant, Clean Energy also owns the plant in Willis, Texas.

This plant has capacity to produce 84,000 gallons of LNG per day and it features one million-gallon storage tank.

 

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EU elections second round in France

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PARIS

Europe is watching with bated breath the ongoing developments in Paris after the sweeping victory of far-right Rassemblement national (RN) in the EU elections, prompted President Emmanuel Macron to call for snap parliamentary elections on 30 June and 7 July.

The country’s political establishment is exploring ways to halt the rise of the far right while the rest of Europe is on alert to see what is next for the bloc’s founding member and second-largest economy.

On the left, La France insoumise (LFI, The Left), the Parti socialiste (PS, S&D), les Écologistes-EELV (EELV, the Greens) and the Parti communiste (PC) – decided to form a coalition under the name “Front populaire”.

But a similar bid by the country’s far-right factions did not have the same outcome.

Euractiv’s Théo Bourgery-Gonse analysed why a union of far-right parties, Jordan Bardella’s Rassemblement national (RN) and Eric Zemmour’s Reconquête, did not come to fruition.

Meanwhile, the French right-wing Les Républicains caused shockwaves on Tuesday after their chief, Éric Ciotti, started to forge closer ties with RN.

The move caused friction among Les Républicains, who belong to the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP). First to oppose was the party’s lead candidate, François-Xavier Bellamy.

Hugo Struna and Paul Messad explain the divisions within the party.

But Ciotti’s intentions raised the alarm in Berlin and Brussels, too.

The centre-right CDU/CSU, the largest member in the EPP, threatened to kick Les Républicains out from their common EU party, writes Oliver Noyan.

In Brussels, relations between the EPP and Les Républicains have not been easy lately, especially after the French right party opposed Ursula von der Leyen’s candidacy for the EU elections.

“We are waiting for the dust to settle, and then we will make the necessary decisions”, an EPP official in Brussels told Euractiv, adding that teaming up with RN is a move “going too far”.

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BERLIN

No alliance with Le Pen: German conservatives threaten to kick Les Republicains out of EPP. The potential team-up of the French conservative Les Républicains (LR) with the far-right party of Marine le Pen is making waves in Germany, with the conservative CDU/CSU threatening to kick them out from their common EU party, the EPP. Read more.

Russia-friendly German lawmakers boycott Zelenskyy’s Bundestag speech. Emboldened by gains in Sunday’s EU elections, German far-right lawmakers boycotted the speech by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Bundestag on Tuesday, saying he should stop the war and reach a peaceful settlement with Moscow. Read more.

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PARIS

French left-wing parties build ‘Front populaire’ for Macron’s snap elections. After President Emmanuel Macron shocked France by calling snap elections on Sunday, national left-wing parties called in a joint appeal on Monday for “the formation of a new popular front” to change the country’s political course. Read more.

The rise and fall of France’s far-right union. A union of far-right movements in France, including renegades from the conservatives Les Républicains, appeared to be on the cards, united around the hope of beating President Emmanuel Macron but at the last moment, it all came unravelled. Read more.

French right-wing MEPs divided over national alliance with far right. While Les Républicains leader Éric Ciotti has begun to forge closer ties with the Rassemblement National (RN), the party’s lead candidate, François-Xavier Bellamy, has no intention of doing so, sticking to the EPP line. Read more.

NORDICS & BALTICS

COPENHAGEN

Wake-up call: Danish PM Frederiksen’s first interview after the attack. Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the recent assault on her in Copenhagen was proof that the boundaries in society are changing fast, spurred on by social media, and described the disappointing results for her coalition in the European election as a “wake-up call”. Read more.

EUROPE’S SOUTH

ROME

How EU elections affected balances within Italy’s governing coalition. The outcome of the European election results in Italy could be a signal of moderation for the ruling right-wing alliance led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, according to the political analyst Lorenzo Pregliasco. Read more

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MADRID

Puigdemont’s return unclear as Spain’s controversial amnesty law comes into force. Spain’s controversial amnesty law, pardoning Catalan separatists responsible for illegal actions between 2011 and 2023, officially came into force on Tuesday, but the expected return of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to Spain remains uncertain, as on the same day a Spanish judge announced that an arrest warrant for the separatist leader remains in force. Read more

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LISBON

Portuguese president notes shift in country’s position on Palestine. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Portugal’s official position on the Palestinian question is changing, reminding protesting students that Portugal had recently adopted an official position in favour of Palestine’s entry into the UN as a full member. Read more.

Portugal backpedals on Nutri-score food labelling system. The Lisbon government clarified on Tuesday that the previous executive’s recommendation to adopt the controversial traffic light food labelling system had been issued without proper consultation with food authorities. Read more.

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NICOSIA

Influencer sweeps Cyprus EU elections, acts as a bulwark against far right. As Cypriot members of the European Parliament (MEPs) formally dressed in suits, commentated on the results of the European Parliament on national TV, a newly-elected parliamentarian,  Fidias Panayiotou, in contrast, wore a t-shirt and shorts and celebrated with a “dab” move, a popular hip-hop dance move and meme. Read more.

EASTERN EUROPE

BRATISLAVA

Slovak government delays ‘hot-button’ issues until autumn. As the summer recess of the Slovak parliament approaches, the ruling coalition announced on Tuesday that it will postpone until September the controversial laws on foreign agents and environmental impact assessment, as well as the dispute over the new speaker of parliament, which the coalition parties are contesting. Read more.

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WARSAW

Poland pays tribute to soldier killed in border attack. Sirens blared across Poland during the funeral of a soldier who died last week after being stabbed by a migrant at the border with Belarus – serving as another example of hybrid activities taking place all across NATO, according to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Read more.

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PRAGUE

Czech far-right party admits failure in EU elections. The Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy (ID) party will convene a committee within the next two weeks to analyse its disappointing performance in the recent European elections, party leader Tomio Okamura announced on Tuesday. Read more.

NEWS FROM THE BALKANS

SOFIA

Bulgarian president blocks common Bucharest Nine position on Ukraine. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, known for his long-term opposition to sending aid to Ukraine, blocked the adoption of a common position on the provision of military aid to Kyiv at the Bucharest Nine forum in Riga on Tuesday. Read more.

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BUCHAREST

Romanian far-right party entering EU parliament for the first time eyes ID. The far-right SOS Romania party, founded just three years ago, most closely aligns with the far-right EU group Identity and Democracy (ID), according to Diana Şoșoacă, the leader of the party that will send two of Romania’s eight far-right MEPs to the new European Parliament. Read more.

AGENDA:

EU: Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides holds videoconference with WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health Vanessa Kerry;
Equality Commissioner Helena Dalli holds meetings with Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, and Australian Minister Bill Shorten, in the margins of the 17th Conference of States Parties, in New York, United States;
Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton meets with European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) board members; Meets with stakeholders on electricity infrastructure needs for zero emission mobility (Route35);
Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Commissioner Iliana Ivanova hosts President of the European Economic and Social Committee Oliver Röpke;

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Surrey Council charges ahead with solar-powered EV hub

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Surrey County Council has opened a new solar-powered EV charging hub at Council Depot Centre, Merrow, Guildford, in partnership with 3ti.

The Papilio3 facility supports the council’s move to electric fleets.

Scheduled to be operational for the next three years, the hub is poised to contribute to Surrey’s efforts in reducing emissions and promoting sustainable transport practices.

Paul Wheadon, Strategic Contract Group Manager for the Council’s Highways and Transport Department said: “With charging capacity up to 22kW, multiple operational vehicles (when not in use) can be charged throughout the day, ensuring vehicles remain operational without the need for long dwell times on low-powered charging options.

“As well as the benefit of generating solar power to charge our fleet, the nature of the structure means we have the flexibility to conveniently relocate the unit elsewhere on the site in the future if needed, unlike with other charging solution.”

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