ASHRAE names Carl Munters ‘a pioneer of industry’
Carl Munters, the inventor who gave his name to the Munters’ brand, has been honoured by ASHRAE for making milestone contributions to the growth...
0800 Repair dials up efficiency gong
Customer service delivery operation 0800 Repair, part of energy & waste management combine PHS, has been recognised at the prestigious National Energy Efficiency Awards.
The...
SIMEC Atlantis finds new chairman
SIMEC Atlantis, marine energy innovators worldwide as well as converters of a Welsh coal power station, have chosen their probable new chairman.
Subject to shareholders’...
Heat & Buildings Strategy: Johnson disappoints again
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s long awaited Heat & Buildings Strategy was this afternoon greeted with similar disappointment from energy campaigners and industry as the...
What are the advantages of buying a new build home in the UK?
Each year, it seems like there are more new build homes popping up than the year before. Data published by Office for National Statistics...
Ofgem to consult in November on Price Cap reform
Britain’s energy regulator will consult in November on reform to the Price Cap mechanism regulating energy sales to 15 million UK domestic consumers.
Ofgem wrote...
Kwarteng seeks to calm energy chiefs, as Price Cap’s architect calls for its overhaul
Beleaguered energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng won the support of Britain’s power bosses today, reassuring them that vulnerable consumers would be continue to be protected,...
Al Gore’s fund buys 13% of Octopus Energy
An investment fund founded by former US vice president Al Gore has paid the equivalent of £483 million to take a 13% stake in...
Amazon Web Services to expand data centre infrastructure in Italy
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it will open an infrastructure region in Italy in early 2020. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will comprise...
Centiel and G4S to provide critical power protection for Channel Islands’ UPS installations
Centiel, has teamed-up with G4S Facilities Management to provide critical power protection services for clients based on the Channel Islands. With Centiel’s 4th generation,...
Investment in Ireland to top €10bn by 2022
Ireland will see inward investment from data centres top €10 billion by 2022, according to the latest industry update report from Host In Ireland...
Amsterdam facility shortlisted for Datacloud Europe Architecture Award
Datacenter.com, a global provider of carrier and cloud neutral colocation data centre services, has been nominated by Datacloud Europe under the ‘Excellence in Data Centre...
Battery-free UPS system wins iF Design Award
HITEC Power Protection, a manufacturer of Diesel Rotary UPS (DRUPS), has announced that its PowerPRO2700 product has won this year's iF Design Award. Each...
Offshore rigs hit by ‘biggest strike for a generation’, says Unite
Oil and gas extractors in the North Sea were today hit by a 48-hour strike by a claimed 1,300 offshore workers, in what its...
APT and Schneider deliver power upgrade to the University of Stirling
Set in the shadow of the Ochil Hills, the University of Stirling’s magnificent 330-acre campus encompasses a loch, a golf course and the 18th-century...
Regulator probes transcos’ and DNOs’ Storm Arwen response
Ofgem today announced a review of transmission and distribution networks’ responses to Storm Arwen, as thousands of homes awaited reconnection after seven days of...
Rolls Royce diesel generators to supply back-up power to Hinkley Point C
Rolls Royce is supplying multiple MTU diesel generators to provide back-up power to the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Rolls-Royce...
Comparing costs of prefab data centres with traditional build
SchneiderElectric has introduced a Prefabricated vs Traditional Data Centre Cost Calculator, providing users with a cost analysis for considering the optimum approach to deploying...
Siemens to harness AI to improve cooling efficiency
The Siemens Building Technologies Division is expanding its existing Thermal Optimisation offering set for data centres to intelligently ensure both highly efficient cooling production...
World’s first certification to Tier IV of an IP-Bus system
Australian colocation provider NextDC’s B2 data centre in Brisbane has been awarded Tier IV constructed facility certification from the Uptime Institute, the data centre advisory...