“To the roofs, and beyond!” Lockdowns can’t stop record 2021 for UK solar
Solar bosses are today hailing 2021 as another record-busting twelve months for clean PV-generated power. Figures just released prove gigawatts of the speedily deployed...
Tesco to debut Britain’s first electric HGVs
Tesco is to pioneer the use of heavy electric trucks to supply food and other products to its distribution centre in Wales early in...
Battery bonanza: Twenty-fold storage expansion to characterise the world in the 2020s, say Bloomberg
Energy practitioners all sense it. Now a leading consultancy is the latest to put numbers around the intuition: “The 2020s are the decade of...
Brighton co-op secures EU cash for SMEs’ solar arrays
Whether "got done" already or only just beginning, the little matter of Brexit has not stopped a far-sighted energy co-operative from offering EU-sourced grants...
Developer Renewco launches with SSE’s blessing
A new clean power developer launched this week in Edinburgh, buoyed with £ 24 million worth of backing from industry giant SSE.
Renewco Power, co-led...
Digital Realty advances renewable energy solutions
Digital Realty is expanding its renewable energy and sustainability initiatives with a long-term power purchase agreement to source solar power for a portion of...
CryrusOne’s London data centres move to 100% renewable energy
CyrusOne has announced that its London I and London II data centre facilities are now running on a 100% renewable energy tariff, a move...
Load sharing hybrid power systems: removing the barriers
Deep Sea Electronics (DSE) has developed a control solution that removes the barriers to hybrid load sharing installations. John Ruddock explains how mission critical...
CNet launches data centre sustainability programme
A new distance learning initiative, focused on sustainability, has launched by CNet in response to calls from data centre professionals for a programme to...
Renewables will be key to Ireland’s data centre growth
Host in Ireland, a strategic global initiative created to increase awareness of the benefits of hosting digital assets in Ireland, has released a report...
Equinix receives award for leadership in green power
Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has been recognised by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a leader in green power....
Microsoft signs agreement with GE to power data centres with wind power
Microsoft has signed an agreement with GE to purchase energy from its wind farm in County Kerry, Ireland, as part of its target of producing...
Apple to build new ‘green’ data centre in Iowa
Apple has announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art data centre in Waukee, Iowa, to better serve North American users of iMessage, Siri, the...
Solar energy to power Apple’s data centre
NV Energy and Apple have announced an agreement to build 200 megawatts of additional solar energy in Nevada by early 2019. The projects will...
RTE selects Saft for lithium-ion backup battery systems in innovative Smart Grid Substation installations
Saft has supplied two battery systems to French transmission grid operator RTE to provide vital backup power for its innovative Smart Substations Project. The...