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.
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.
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.
Exponential-e are a British networking and cloud provider. The company entirely own an extremely fast one hundred Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 VPLS Network that enables them to guarantee a high level of reliability, performance and resilience.
Cork County Council have recently been named Ireland’s first Local Authority to be accredited to ISO 50001, the global standard for energy management. In achieving this accreditation Cork have now reached their legislative requirements under the 2014 EU Energy Regulations prior to the schedule. These regulations follow all Public Sector bodies falling within particular specified criteria in order to become ISO 50001 compliant or to carry out comprehensive organisation wide energy by June 2016.
