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BBOXX is unveiling a new initiative today which marks a major stride towards tackling the global clean cooking crisis and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. BBOXX Cook provides clean cooking services for both urban and rural areas through LPG and biogas solutions. As a leading next generation utility, BBOXX is the…

Kenya has unveiled Africa’s largest wind power plant, a project aimed at reducing electricity costs and dependence on fossil fuels and moving the nation to meet an ambitious goal of 100 percent green energy next year. The sprawling wind farm of 365 turbines on the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya…

Buckinghamshire’s energy from waste plant is on track to save £150-million over 30 years. The Greatmoor site has just passed its third anniversary, generating power for 40,000 homes by burning non-recyclable waste. That’s helping to save the County Council £5-million a year, on average. The plant is the largest single…

As we wait for for better batteries, the many wonder technologies we’ve been promised for the last decade have failed to materialize to market for various reasons. This may not be the case of XNRGI, a startup that is ready to ship a “porous” silicon battery that has better energy…

Wind turbines in Scotland generated almost twice the entire country’s domestic power requirements In the first six months of the year. Enough energy was created by the country’s renewables to power homes from all the way up in Harris in the Outer Hebrides down to Harrogate in Yorkshire, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Scotland said. The figures, from Weather…

Electric car owners are set to benefit financially by charging their cars off-peak, by taking part in the UK’s first ever trial of a market-led approach to smart charging. Launched by UK Power Networks, the innovative trial called Shift, will see up to 1,000 electric vehicle owners offered financial incentives…

July 18, 2019 – Boulder, CO – A new report from Navigant Research tracks wind turbine OEM market distributions and market shares by region and country. In 2018, global installed wind power capacity decreased year-to-year from 52 GW to 50.6 GW, due to increased competition from solar and a transition…...

While predictions vary in terms of specifics, practically every major news outlet, government institution and academic authority agrees that the trend of global urbanisation is continuing to accelerate rapidly – by 2050, 68% of the world’s population (an estimated 6.7 billion of 9.8 billion people) are predicted to be living…

London, 16 July 2019: Cubico Sustainable Investments (Cubico), a global investor in renewable energy backed by two of Canada’s largest pension funds, recently reached financial close for the 100 MW Huntley solar PV project in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA. This is the third project to reach financial close in…

All new-build homes could soon be fitted with an electric car chargepoint, the government has outlined today (15 July 2019) in a public consultation on changing building regulations in England. The consultation comes alongside a package of announcements to support electric vehicle drivers and improve the experience of charging. The proposals…