Liberty Global, one of the world’s leading converged video,
broadband and communications companies, today unveils details of a
new project that utilizes the network infrastructure of its UK
subsidiary, Virgin Media, to help revolutionise on-street electric
vehicle charging.
Leveraging Virgin Media’s 40,000 powered street cabinets and
170,000 km of ducts, Liberty Global’s project has been created in
partnership with Innovate UK, the UK government’s research and
innovation department, to help local authorities find a solution to
limited on-street electric vehicle charging points and thereby
encourage more people to use electric vehicles. In addition to
tapping Virgin Media’s powered network infrastructure, the project
utilises the UK operator’s construction and deployment capabilities
and its trusted relationships with local authority partners.
Over the next 18 months, Liberty Global aims to deploy and
operate 1,200 charging sockets across the country through the
project. The rollout of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations using
Virgin Media’s connectivity will build a fully scalable electric
vehicle charging network, helping the UK government move closer to
its goal of reducing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050.
Liberty Global is taking part in the project as part of a
19-strong consortium working under the project name Virgin Media
Park & Charge. The consortium includes delivery partners
Vattenfall and SMS plc and specialist technology partners Cenex,
Ginger Town, Fully Charged, Connected Kerb, DETA and Loughborough
University. This is in addition to several local authorities
including the West Midlands Combined Authority as well as Councils
in Oxfordshire, Liverpool, Southend on Sea, Worcestershire,
Wandsworth, Croydon, Northamptonshire, Hammersmith & Fulham and
Belfast.
Jason Simpson, Vice President Global Energy and Utilities for
Liberty Global, comments, “Leveraging street cabinets allows
Liberty Global to look beyond traditional uses of telecom
infrastructure and make a positive impact on the environment and in
communities throughout the UK. By bringing more electric vehicle
chargers and associated connectivity to Britain’s streets, we are
making a significant contribution to Innovate UK’s ambition to
encourage more people to buy electric cars. We’re excited to be
working with a wide array of partners who each bring their own
areas of expertise to this exciting and innovative project.”
Liberty Global is already a proven advocate of electric vehicles
as the largest investor in electric car racing championship Formula
E. Liberty Global has also been recognized for its leadership in
ethical and sustainable practices, having recently been included in
the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the seventh consecutive
year. It is also the first cable operator to set ambitious
science-based targets to reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon
emissions.
ABOUT LIBERTY GLOBAL
Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) is one of the
world’s leading converged video, broadband and communications
companies, with operations in six European countries under the
consumer brands Virgin Media, Telenet and UPC. We invest in the
infrastructure and digital platforms that empower our customers to
make the most of the digital revolution. Our substantial scale and
commitment to innovation enable us to develop market-leading
products delivered through next-generation networks that connect 11
million customers subscribing to 25 million TV, broadband internet
and telephony services. We also serve 6 million mobile subscribers
and offer WiFi service through millions of access points across our
footprint.
In addition, Liberty Global owns 50% of VodafoneZiggo, a joint
venture in the Netherlands with 4 million customers subscribing to
10 million fixed-line and 5 million mobile services, as well as
significant investments in ITV, All3Media, ITI Neovision,
LionsGate, the Formula E racing series and several regional sports
networks.
Notes to editors
Partners
Cenex
Cenex, the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and
Fuel Cell technologies, operates as an independent not-for-profit
consultancy and research organisation. Established in 2005, we have
spent over a decade at the forefront of low emission technology
research so that we can provide our customers with trustworthy,
evidence-based expertise and insights, from feasibility through to
implementation and training. We understand our customers values,
drivers and motivations, and combine this with data collection,
analysis and insight into cutting edge technologies in order to
develop an evidence-based strategy that helps them to reduce their
emissions, increase efficiency and lower costs.
Connected Kerb
Connected Kerb have designed a future-proof, sustainable, smart
cities infrastructure platform. The system is the first of its
kind, combining power and data at kerbside to enable charging and
connectivity for electric and autonomous vehicles, and support the
application of advanced IoT technologies. The system is split
between a subterranean node box that houses the intelligent
componentry, and the above-ground charge point sockets, which are
made from >80% recycled vehicle tyres and fit to existing street
furniture. The charge points act as Wi-Fi / 5G access points,
enabling air quality, traffic and other IoT sensors. The system can
support wireless induction charging and vehicle-to-grid
technologies.”
Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a leading European energy company, that for more
than 100 years has electrified industries, supplied energy to
people’s homes and modernised our way of living through innovation
and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible
within one generation. Therefore, we are driving the transition to
a more sustainable energy system through growth in renewable
production and climate smart energy solutions for our customers. We
employ approximately 20,000 people and have operations mainly in
Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK. Vattenfall is
owned by the Swedish state. For more information:
www.corporate.vattenfall.com
Decentralised Energy Trading
Association
DETA (Decentralised Energy Trading Association) is a body that
represents companies within the battery storage industry who want
to trade energy more freely through the methods of demand-side
response and load-shifting. Storage will be essential for the
transition to a low-carbon economy, however, the way the system
incentivises asset owners currently makes storage uneconomic at
scale and is therefore preventing the development of the industry
and hampering the UK’s carbon-reduction goals. DETA is working with
the industry and regulators to change how these energy payment
mechanisms function. By doing this, DETA aims to unlock storage as
a financially-viable sector that can that can facilitate renewable
energy to provide the majority of power on the grid.
Ginger Town
Ginger is a British-based micro e-mobility company seeking to
make the UK a leader in future mobility innovation. We believe
micro e-mobility will emerge to be the most significant part of the
solution to the major urban transport challenges facing the UK
today, including climate change, air quality, congestion, energy
efficiency, and urban liveability.
SMS
SMS Plc has been at the heart of the UK energy market for 25
years and is today playing a critical role in transforming and
decarbonising the UK energy system. Through its range of innovative
solutions, SMS’ mission is to deliver the future of smart energy,
working closely with private and public sector organisations – as
well as the UK government – to achieve the country’s net-zero
carbon target by 2050. As an independent energy services and smart
metering company with low-carbon technology, data and
sustainability at the core its business model, SMS Plc is leading
the smart energy revolution in Britain, serving the industrial and
commercial sector, and the wider domestic market to realise the
environmental and financial benefits of smarter energy practice.
SMS does this by delivering integrated metering, data, energy
management and utility infrastructure services directly for large
energy consumers and multi-site organisations, and also connects,
owns, operates and maintains metering systems and databases on
behalf of the UK’s energy suppliers.
Fully Charged
The Fully Charged Show is a YouTube channel dedicated to the
future of energy and transport. Started in 2010 by actor, presenter
and writer Robert Llewellyn, Fully Charged currently receives ~4-5
million monthly episode views and has a highly engaged, global
audience of 1.9 million. The channel is perfectly positioned as the
World’s no.1 consumer channel for clean energy and electric
vehicles. Sales of these technologies are set to surge, to many
times their current volumes, in the coming decade.
Loughborough University
Loughborough University has been conducting research on the
transport sector for the past 50 years and has a track record of
delivering projects in automotive propulsion, system control and
operation, road safety, and transport sustainability. As the sector
moves into a period of rapid change with the emergence of new
technologies and changes in social preferences for mobility, there
is a clear need for research activity which focuses on the factors
facilitating a shift to a more sustainable future. Loughborough
University is well positioned to deliver such research due to its
diverse set of research groups and extensive partner network.
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