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Warrington Borough Council

… Strategy. External Funding The Government has put in place many different avenues of funding that could be used by the Council in pursuance of this work. Examples are the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) for electric vehicle infrastructure and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, which is a non departmental public body that helps realise the potential for new ideas, such as micro…

… battery storage systems;  Tipping Point 2 – the price of battery electric vehicles reaches cost parity and performance parity with internal combustion engine vehicles;  Tipping Point 3 – the cost of transporting electricity exceeds the cost of local distributed generation and storage. This means that the pace of change in the future energy market will be defined by three key…

… technologies:  Solar PV;  Battery storage;  Electric vehicles. There will be implications across the value chain and the Council will need to decide when and how to intervene in the market or when and how to alter its intervention plans. There will be winners and losers, but the Council’s covenant should ensure that local people trust its offerings and as energy becomes more local…

… to maximise the value of these developments to the Council. Each solar farm will also have an electric vehicle forecourt as part of its development, whereby typical charging times of less than 30 minutes are provided from up to 24 ultra-fast charging bays. This is another leading innovation, as power for the electric vehicle forecourts will come from the solar farms attached. The Council also…

…. The Council recognises that electric vehicles represent the future and that it will need to introduce electric vehicles fully into its fleet. This work has started and charge points have been installed for the Council’s own use. Further infrastructure to accommodate public charging of electric vehicles in Warrington will also be required but a big step forwards has been taken with the installation…