Including the closely related terms uk government, government, and scottish government.
… Scotland’s publication of ‘Switched on Scotland Phase 2’ action plan and sought to map activity in Orkney onto this national document. Whilst being drafted, the UK government made a statement that new conventional diesel and petrol vehicle sales will be banned by 2040; the Scottish Government have set a target to phase out the need for such vehicles by 2032; and the 2017 Queen’s Speech announced a UK…
… the consultation closed, the Scottish Government also published its Energy Strategy. It reinforced the points in Transport Scotland’s documents and the UK Government announced its intention to mandate EV charge points in new buildings in its forthcoming building standards review. This document, in seeking to map out a path for the uptake of EVs in Orkney, is therefore extremely timely. It is launched…
…, private businesses, investors, individuals, Scottish and UK government) to enable them to efficiently deploy their capital and efforts to help de-carbonise Orkney’s road transport. It is expected that the Council will review its own EV Infrastructure Strategy 2014 to respond to the more up to date position established in this document. A draft of this strategy was written following Transport…
… Policy Charging Infrastructure Sufficient, reliable, and appropriate EV charging infrastructure is essential for the uptake and continued use of EVs within Orkney as well as the UK as a whole. The Scottish Government has stated in The Government's Programme for Scotland 2017-18 that they will “expand our electric charging infrastructure between now and 2022, whether in rural, urban or domestic…
… generation through storage for the benefit of all our community. There are many other advantages, not least a huge reduction in carbon emissions, all of which are outlined in the Strategy. To succeed, this Strategy will need the support of many partners, from central and local government, to private sector businesses, and indeed many hundreds of existing and future EV owners. All I would ask…