Alternative Energy

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has marked its new 100MW hyperscale data centre in Mumbai at a recent ceremony. Powered by renewable energy, the facility will be one of the largest hyperscale data centres in India, complementing Colt DCS’ dedicated commitment towards its international hyperscale offerings in 2020.

Researchers are investigating how to make electronic components from eco-friendly, biodegradable materials to help address a growing public health and environmental problem: around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste are produced every year.

Compare and Recycle has identified which are the greenest towns for recycling old and unused gadgets including items such as mobile phones, tablets, cameras or smartwatches. Most of these devices contain rare precious metal components which can be reused so devices don’t have to end up in landfill, causing pollution. 

The main thrust of the 21st annual conference of the Farnborough Aerospace Consortium (FAC) was climate change, and how the industry should help combat it.

Scientists from Hasselt University, imec, VITO and international partners within the PERCISTAND consortium have become the first to achieve an energy efficiency of 25% with a thin-film solar cell. This means that this wafer-thin solar cell generates as much energy as a traditional silicon solar cell. 

Spin, the micro-mobility unit of Ford Motor Company that crafted the first stationless micro-mobility permit in the United States of America, has announced its international expansion plans. The company will launch its first international fleet of dockless electric scooters in Cologne, Germany this Spring, with other German cities soon to follow.

The report, ‘Global Energy Storage Market 2019’, estimates that the three main drivers of energy storage, mobility applications, electronic devices, and stationary storage, will reach an annual combined deployment level of 3,046 GWh over the next 15 years, up from the current 164GWh, with mobility applications making up the lion’s share of the growth.

Kerlink has announced the success of a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) pilot program for reservoir water monitoring in Uganda and Iraq, which incorporates Kerlink’s LoRaWAN gateway technology.

Over the past few years, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) responsibility has become a key business imperative and it’s clear that it’s here to stay. It is now being discussed at the highest levels, as we saw at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, where sustainability sat at the heart of the agenda, with themes including 'How to save the planet' and 'Better business'. By Juan Miguel Pérez, CEO and C...

Having set its goal of procuring 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050, Konica Minolta has announced that two further companies completely use eco-electricity from January 2020 onwards. This concerns all locations in Austria (Konica Minolta Business Solutions Austria) and one production site in Jiangsu province in China, producing mainly multi-functional peripherals (MFPs) and digital printing systems (Konica Minolta Business Tec...