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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

Labour commits to 40 GW of solar by 2030, plus Sizewell C &  mini...

The Labour Party has sought to steal the Johnson administration’s clothes by putting out its own 5-point strategy to address energy security and the...

Plots for Kilowatts: Octopus ups pressure on nimbys

In an initiative this morning certain to provoke rural Conservative MPs, but probably to be welcomed even by shire-dwellers, onshore wind champions Octopus Energy...

Towering in-farm-o: V-FAST gorges on vertical feast

Vertical, temperature-controlled, giant indoor fruit and veg farms powered by Scottish renewables are the vision of a four-company consortium announced today. Power storage and clean...

Dawidosky completes management revolution at turbine makers Siemens Gamesa

Turbine-maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa has appointed Tim Dawidowsky as its new chief operating officer. The Hispano-German combine last month hired new CEO Jochen Eickholt in a...