(Leeds North West)
(Lab/Co-op):...On charging infrastructure, the Government have
announced some significant funding to remove the barrier of
connection costs. The charging points all need to work, though.
This £950 million rapid charging fund is for strategic roads and
motorway service stations, but it has yet to be rolled out.
Connection costs is an issue at these locations, but the same
issues exist everywhere. The Government can do more. For example,
more can be done with our existing policy mechanisms without
further grants from Government. One example is the Renewable Transport
Fuel Obligation The UK is falling behind other
European nations when it comes to using this policy to drive down
transport emissions.
The Renewable Transport
Fuel Obligation seeks to reduce emissions from
transport fuels and many other countries have already reformed
their versions to provide revenue generation for a struggling
charging sector. European nations have their versions of the
RTFO, and California has a similar instrument
called the low carbon fuel standard. The key difference is that
Holland, Germany and soon the whole of Europe allow renewable
electricity use in vehicles to count towards these reduction
targets, as does the low carbon fuel standard. I call for the
Minister to look at changing the RTFO, because
it will drive that infrastructure through to renewable
electricity production...
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