Aspiring communities across the nation will be able to receive Feed-in Tariff (FITs) payments for the clean green energy generated by larger community energy projects, under new plans set out by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar PV
The UK's leading designer and manufacturer of surplus PV energy controllers will be discussing the future of sustainability at this month's Energy Storage UK exhibition. Robin Whitehead, Sales Manager at 4Eco-immerSUN, will be a keynote ...
Tags: Energy, green energy
The STA has welcomed Government proposals to increase the upper size limit of community projects eligible for the fixed Feed-in Tariff (FIT) from 5MW to 10MW in an amendment tabled by DECC yesterday [1]. The amendment does not stipulate a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
As part of a continued initiative to increase sustainability across the UK, 4Eco has announced a new partnership with YESSS Electrical. The agreement will see 4Eco's market leading eco gadget - the immerSUN - installed into thousands more ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The proportion of UK electricity generated from gas fell to 16-year lows last year as cheaper coal prices spurred generators into increasing coal-fired power to its greatest share of the electricity mix since 1996, government data shows. ...
Tags: Gas-Fired Power, Chemicals
IDG News Service - A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard. Interxion, a collocation company in the Netherlands that rents ...
Tags: Data Center, Seawater, Cooling
Sri Lanka's Piramal Glass said profits rose 5.6 percent to 724.3 million rupees in the year to March 2012 from a year earlier, exports were doing well, but warned against higher energy costs this year. The firm reported earnings of 76 ...
Tags: Piramal Glass, Construction
UK, Belfast City Hall has become the first building in Europe to install a new intelligent lighting system, with its LED floodlighting becoming the biggest single building project of its kind in Europe. The council says it will help ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED, Lighting
The bigger jobs have been rolling in for us this month at SunGift, as our commercial team has been working hard on winning contract with highly-regarded installations. So we're delighted to announce that we've completed work on a 250 kW ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, vacuum cleaner
Despite assurances from the White House and little traction from Democrats in US Congress, a key Republican senator believes that a carbon tax is President Barack Obama's top priority. "That is the ultimate goal of this president," said ...
Tags: Lead Republican, Carbon Tax, Chemicals
As more and more people become increasingly aware of their own ecological responsibility - both in terms of their working and personal life - individuals are paying far more attention to their carbon footprint than they used to. All too ...
Tags: outdoor lighting, bulbs, lighting
Flintshire County Council has announced a series of measures targeting the way the area uses its street and sign lighting in order to slash £50,000 from its energy bill over the current financial year. The move comes at a time when ...
Taiwan's Bureau of Energy has invited the Australian Solar Council and representatives from large-size engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms to join an investment conference in Taipei from March 19-21, 2013. The Taiwan ...
Tags: Solar Market, Solar, Energy
Grand Prix New York has chosen Xeleum Lighting to convert the existing fluorescent and high-bay lighting to LEDs in its 118,000 square foot Mount Kisco, New York entertainment center. Vice President of Grand Prix New York, Nat Mundy ...
Tags: Grand Prix New York, Xeleum Lighting, LEDs
Automatic reductions to support for solar PV were published by Ofgem. The Feed - in Tariff (FIT) scheme automatically lowers support by 3.5% after three quarters (nine months) even if little solar capacity has been installed. The new ...
Tags: Domestic Solar Degression, STA, Energy