RNS
REACH
14
October 2024
Good Energy Group
PLC
("Good Energy" or the
"Company")
Hive and Zapmap Announce
Strategic Partnership
Zapmap, the UK's leading EV app and
data provider which Good Energy Group PLC (AIM: GOOD) is the
largest shareholder in, has announced that it has entered into a
strategic partnership with Hive, the energy-saving technology
company owned by Centrica.
Hive is an eco-tech company with a
number of pioneering technology products such as energy-saving
light bulbs, smart meters, EV charging, solar panels and heat
pumps.
The strategic partnership will allow
Hive customers to charge their EVs at or away from home. To mark
the first phase of the partnership, starting in 2025, new Hive EV
customers will receive £20 of charging credit to use
Zap-Pay-enabled EV chargers at thousands of locations across the UK
across 250,000 miles.
The offer is part of Hive and
Zapmap's shared mission to make it as simple and stress-free to
charge on the road as it is at home. The partnership aims to give
customers the freedom to travel and charge wherever they choose,
with the ambition of helping over a million customers to go
electric in the next three years.
Longer-term, the partnership is set
to explore bringing together the Hive app and Zapmap's digital
platform to offer further exciting customer benefits, including
targeted end-to-end solutions for Hive customers to conveniently
track their at-home and public charging within the Hive app, have
multiple ways to pay for public charging, whether through the Hive
app, charge cards or even via their household energy
bills.
Hive's SmartCharge product,
accessible via the app, allows users to benefit from a 4p/kWh
saving on all their EV charging which is automatically credited to
their energy bill each month. SmartCharge automatically charges an
EV when energy is at its cheapest during that charging
session.
Dan
Rosenfield, Managing Director of Hive, commented:
"We're on a mission to help make EV charging
simple and affordable. Through our strategic partnership with
Zapmap and our investments in the Hive app, we are empowering EV
drivers to have complete control over their electric driving
experience.
"Electric vehicle uptake is a key
part of the UK's drive to net zero and, for many people, represents
the first step on their journey to reducing their carbon footprint.
EVs have continued to increase their market share since the start
of the year as more drivers reap the benefits of going electric. To
support this, we want to give drivers the confidence to charge
whenever and wherever they want and save money in the process. This
is all part of our ambition to energise a greener, fairer future
for all."
Melanie Shufflebotham, Co-founder and COO of Zapmap
added: "By combining simple home and
public charging, we can give EV drivers everything they need to
find and pay for charging and help the next generation of EV
drivers build confidence charging, wherever they go.
"Hive customers can enjoy the
benefits of EVs, stress-free, and we're really excited to continue
to expand the service to give them access to the best-priced
charging, within the simplest experience, across the broadest range
of locations."
Nigel Pocklington, CEO of Good Energy, said:
"This strategic partnership reinforces the
significant role that Zapmap plays in making it simple for EV
drivers to charge their vehicles. EVs and related products such as
home charging are a major gateway for customer adoption of
renewable energy solutions that can help accelerate decentralised
clean power."
Enquiries
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Good Energy Group PLC
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Nigel Pocklington, Chief
Executive
Ian McKee, Head of
Communications
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Email: press@goodenergy.co.uk
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SEC
Newgate UK
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Email: GoodEnergy@secnewgate.co.uk
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Elisabeth Cowell / Molly
Gretton
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Tel: +44 (0)7900 248213
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Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint
Broker)
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Henry Fitzgerald - O'Connor / Harry
Rees
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 4617
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Panmure Liberum Limited (Joint Broker)
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Edward Mansfield / William King /
Josh Moss
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 3100
2000
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About Good Energy www.goodenergy.co.uk
Good Energy is a supplier of 100%
renewable power and an innovator in energy services. It has long
term power purchase agreements with a community of more than 2,500
independent UK generators.
Since it was founded 20 years ago,
the Company has been at the forefront of the charge towards a
cleaner, distributed energy system. Its mission is to power a
cleaner, greener world and make it simple to generate, share,
store, use and travel by clean power. Its ambition is to
support one million homes and businesses to cut carbon from their
energy and transport use by 2025.
Good Energy is recognised as a
leader in this market, through its B Corp accreditation, Which? Eco
Provider status and Gold Standard Uswitch Green Tariff
Accreditation for all tariffs.
About
Hive
Hive is an eco-tech company on a mission to transform home energy
and build a greener, fairer, future for all. Part of the
Centrica family, we have helped
millions of customers around the UK take a step closer to achieving
their eco-energy potential. And looking ahead, our range of
pioneering technology - like energy-saving light bulbs, smart
meters, solar panels and super-efficient heat pumps - is ready to
make home energy even greener, cheaper and easier to
use.
About
Zapmap
Zapmap was founded in 2014 with a
mission to make the EV charging experience simple, wherever you
go.
The Zapmap app helps EV drivers
search, plan and pay for charging, and currently has around 900,000
registered users. Zapmap has mapped over 95% of the UK's public
points on its network, more than 75% of which show 24/7 live status
data.
For more information, please
visit www.zap-map.com.