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Posted on 28th September 2016
npower is one of the leading energy companies in Britain, serving an average of 5.1 million business and residential accounts with gas and electricity. npower recently announced that its compliance with ISO 50001 has played a key role in the company’s efforts to lower its energy use and reduce its carbon footprint, whilst transforming the attitudes of its staff.
Posted on 26th September 2016
Deepwater Wind is on the verge of completing the first offshore wind farm in the United States, Block Island Wind Farm, marking a new chapter in the nation’s ever changing electricity grid. Workers have been installing blades on the 589ft turbines at the site just off the coast of Rhode Island and construction is expected to be completed by early November, 2016.
Posted on 22nd September 2016
July 2016 was the hottest month recorded in the Middle East, so hot that civilians were blistering their fingers on door knobs. If temperatures continue to rise, up to half of its region may become unlivable by the end of this century, forcing millions of residents to migrate. These temperatures have burst global temperature records and NASA themselves have calculated that July 2016 was 1.5℉ warmer than the global averages from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Posted on 19th September 2016
Scottish energy giant, SSE have confirmed the construction of a new £2.6bn offshore wind farm. The 588 MW Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm is set to be located in Outer Moray Firth and is expected to inject around £680m into the Scottish and UK economy through supply chain and employment opportunities during the construction phase. This is additional to a further £400m during the twenty five years of the wind farm’s operational life.
Posted on 15th September 2016
Costa Rica is said to be the world’s happiest country, perhaps this is due to the ever so high life expectancy, beautiful scenery, variety of wildlife or because of its biodiversity. We’d like to think it’s because the small nation have not burned any fossil fuels to generate electricity for over 400 days in the last couple of years. Instead their electricity is entirely generated from renewable energy sources and has been for over 76 consecutive days so far this year, with more still to come.
