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.
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.
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.
Researchers within the Department of Food Science have established that exposing milk to light-emitting diode (LED) light sources for as little as four hours devalues its quality. It is believed that this exposure to LED light sources is more impacting than the microbial content that naturally forms in milk overtime.