Good Energy Group PLC Appointment of Zap-Map Chairman
10 September 2020 - 4:00PM
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Good Energy Group PLC
10 September 2020
Good Energy Group PLC
Appointment of Zap-Map Chairman
Good Energy Group PLC, the 100% renewable electricity supplier
and innovative energy services provider ("Good Energy" or "the
Company"), today announces that Founder and Chief Executive
Officer, Juliet Davenport, has been appointed Chairman of Next
Green Car Ltd, the parent company of Zap-Map
The appointment follows the launch of Zap-Pay, a game changing
electric Vehicle ("EV") charging payment service that launched on
7(th) September. The new service enables EV drivers to use a single
app to pay for charging across different networks and will be
rolled out across UK networks in 2021, providing unique and
unrivalled coverage across the whole country.
Juliet Davenport is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good
Energy Group plc. She currently sits on the board of the Renewable
Energy Association, Innovate UK and is Vice President of the Energy
Institute. In addition, she sits on the advisory boards of leading
UK think tanks, including Energy Systems Catapult, Aurora, Oxford
Energy, and LSE's Grantham Institute.
Good Energy Group PLC exercised its right to increase its equity
stake in Zap-Map's parent company, Next Green Car Ltd ("NGCL") to
50.1% in June. The Zap-Map Board now consists of 5 members,
including the Co-founders of Zap-Map Melanie Shufflebotham and Ben
Lane alongside Good Energy Group PLC Non-Executive Director Tim
Jones and Head of Investor Relations and Company Secretarial,
Charlie Parry.
Juliet Davenport, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good
Energy, said:
"I believe Zap-Map has an integral role to play in decarbonising
the transport sector in Great Britain. It has a clear vision to be
provide the technology and data to make charging simple for drivers
and will be the partner of choice for businesses. I look forward to
being part of this journey."
Enquiries:
Good Energy Group PLC Via Walbrook PR
Juliet Davenport, Chief Executive
Charles Parry, Investor Relations
Luke Bigwood, Communications
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Tel: +44 (0) 20 7597 5970
Adviser)
Jeremy Ellis
Sara Hale
Walbrook (Financial PR) goodenergy@walbrookpr.com
Nick Rome Tel: +44 (0) 20 7933 8783
Tom Cooper
Notes to editors:
About Good Energy www.goodenergy.co.uk
Good Energy is a generator and supplier of 100% renewable power
and an innovator in energy services. It currently owns two wind
farms, six solar farms and sources electricity from a community of
1,600 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 support UK households and businesses
generate, store and share clean power.
About Zap-Map
-- Launched in June 2014, with a mission to accelerate the shift
to electric vehicles (EV), Zap-Map is the UK's leading mapping
service. The charging point map, available on desktop and
iOS/Android apps, helps EV drivers to locate available charge
points, plan longer journeys and share updates for the benefit of
the EV community.
-- As of September 2020, Zap-Map features over 19,000 charge
point devices in the UK at 12,000 locations. This is an estimated
98% of all public chargers, of which 70% receive live availability
status updates every 5 minutes direct from the network.
-- In the UK, Zap-Map attracts more than 120,000 users per month
from a rapidly growing fleet of around 130,000 pure-EVs (Zap-Map's
core user group) and 180,000 plug-in hybrids (SMMT: July 2020).
EV drivers access Zap-Map via a desktop map, using the
iOS/android mobile app or via Google Assistant. As of September
2020, app downloads number more than 250,000.
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