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12 Offers available to owners of pre-Euro 5 diesel vehicles registered before 2010 New year, new van: Volkswagon Commercial Vehicles extends scrappage scheme for 2018 Caddy Trendline There’s good news for businesses looking to freshen up their company transport in 2018: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has extended the scrappage scheme launched in September 2017 to encourage the exchange of latest generation, lower-emission new vehicles, in tandem with the removal of older, Euro 1- 41 emissions standards vehicles from the UK. Owners of diesel vehicles that comply with pre-Euro 5 emissions legislation qualify for the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles scrappage scheme. They can trade-in their vehicles and benefit from incentives – ranging from £1,000 to £2,000 – against the majority of new Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles vans that are ordered by 31 March 2018 and registered before 30 June 2018. The trade-in vehicle needs to have been owned by the customer for at least six months. All new Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles petrol and diesel models meet the latest Euro 6 emissions standards, currently the most stringent yet. The offer runs in conjunction with other attractive new year offers for businesses looking for a fresh new van for 2018. For example, combine the £1,000 scrappage scheme incentive on any Caddy with the current retail offer and there’s a saving of up to £2,500. The ‘Euro 1‘ standard was introduced in 1992 to help reduce vehicle emissions. Progressively more stringent Euro standards have been implemented since then, helping to lower emissions still further. The current ‘Euro 6‘ standard that all new petrol and diesel cars must meet is the toughest yet. Transporter Highline cleantechbusinessnews www.cleantechbusinessnews.co.uk
13 UK’s third largest wind farm owner-operator launches as Ventient Energy Ventient Energy Ltd, the UK’s third largest generator of onshore wind energy, and the largest non-utility owner of onshore wind, has been officially launched. With 34 wind farms located from Caithness to Cornwall, comprising 507 turbines and 690MW of installed capacity, Ventient Energy supplies the equivalent of 420,000 homes annually, offsetting 0.75 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year. The company was formed by combining the Zephyr portfolio of 15 wind farms with 19 wind farms that were formerly owned by Infinis, with the entire portfolio of wind farms now owned by institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management. Today’s announcement follows completion of a restructuring which moved Zephyr Investments Ltd and associated wind farms to the newly formed Ventient Energy. As a result of these changes, asset management services previously undertaken by Innogy Renewable UK Ltd from their base in Swindon on behalf of Zephyr Investments are now performed by Ventient Energy’s team from its new headquarters in Edinburgh. Approximately two-thirds of Ventient Energy’s power is generated in Scotland. With the creation of Ventient Energy, the top three UK onshore wind portfolios are all headquartered in Scotland, further demonstrating the economic value of the onshore wind industry to Scotland. Ventient Energy has created 22 new jobs in the past six months in preparation for these changes and now employs a total of 44 staff. Thirty-one of these staff are based in Edinburgh, at the company’s headquarters in the city’s Frederick Street, and provide administrative engineering and management services. A further 13 staff are employed regionally throughout the UK on management of the wind farms, which combined, can support up to 100 maintenance contractors daily, with additional supply chain benefits. Ventient Energy’s community fund payments will total £1.5 million in 2018, which will be utilised on qualifying community projects and initiatives around the wind farm sites. Scott Mackenzie, CEO of Ventient Energy, said: “We are excited to introduce Ventient Energy, now a major player in onshore wind energy. We are the largest non-utility owner of onshore wind in Britain. We are ambitious - committed to creating prosperity through safe and sustainable generation of renewable sourced electricity, through quality job creation and supporting the communities in which we operate. “The UK onshore wind market is fragmented, and Ventient Energy owns only 6% of market capacity at present, so we see plenty of opportunities to grow our installed capacity through consolidation.” facebook.com/cleantechbn twitter.com/<strong>Cleantech</strong>BN cleantechbusinessnews
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