Renewables and Efficiency

The updated requirements for products such as mobile phones and speakers are estimated to save around one million tonnes of carbon emissions equivalent between 2020 and 2029.

Solar power capacity will have risen to more than 26 times the 2009 level – from 25GW to an estimated 663GW – by the end of the year.

A new UK100 report says one of the main challenge to implementing ‘school streets’ outside London is the lack of resources and powers for local councils to enforce a ban on parents driving to school.

The 46MW Crossdykes Wind Farm in Dumfries and Galloway will generate enough electricity to power nearly 45.000 homes.

It will focus on all areas of energy-related research. with an emphasis on supporting the oil and gas industry in the transition to clean energy and renewables.

Hazer is seeking to build a 100-tonne per annum facility in Australia by December 2020.

Energy upgrades will be delivered to nearly 700 homes and 570 community and commercial buildings in every county in Ireland.

An onshore wind project in the Outer Hebrides has started to generate power as turbines are constructed on North Uist.

Oil and gas firm Parkmead Group has heralded its entry into the renewables sector after agreeing to buy farmland majority-owned by the wife of chief executive Tom Cross.

Silent-Yachts’ Silent 55 takes the form of a battery-electric catamaran – however. the vessel will cost you €1.4 million.