Apple Hits 96% Renewable Energy Worldwide as Suppliers Join Pledge for 100%

By: Greg Barbosa In an interview with Bloomberg, Apple’s Lisa Jackson has announced that the company has achieved 96% worldwide renewable energy up from 2015’s 93%. Already having been at 100% renewable energy in the United States, three more of the company’s worldwide suppliers have pledged to follow suit. In the interview, Jackson mentions that the company won’t […]

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Chicago Wants to Become a Renewable Energy Powerhouse

By: Anmar Frangoul   City buildings in Chicago are to be powered by 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2025, the city’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced. In a release over the weekend Emanuel – along with figureheads from Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Park District and City Colleges of Chicago – said […]

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Air Liquide Installs First of Eight Clean Energy Stations in France

By: Jemima Owen-Jones Air Liquide has inaugurated a new clean energy station in Servon, Ile-de-France, in partnership with Carrefour. This station, designed and installed by Air Liquide, will provide fuel on bio natural gas for transport vehicles (bio-NGV). The Servon station is the first of eight multi-clean energy stations that Air Liquide will roll out […]

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Okanagan Wind Farm Up and Running

By: Kimberly Davidson After many years of development, and nine months of heavy lifting, the 10 Sevion 3.2 M114 CCV wind turbines are now providing power to the province’s electricity grid. The Pennask project is located just west of Pennask Summit, north of Highway 97C and the Shinish Creek project is located 30 kilometres west […]

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Intertek Energy & Water in pioneering tidal energy research with leading academics

Intertek has published a study on the influence of storm surges on tidal range energy, as part of tidal energy research in collaboration with several academic institutions.

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Solar Panels to Help Cut Office Tower’s Energy Costs by 80 Per Cent

‘Edmonton has a great amount of sunlight. The panels get sunlight the entire day.’ A narrow building on a single lot across from MacEwan University is in the architectural limelight for its innovative, energy-efficient design. Dubbed the Edge, the 10-storey office tower on 107th Street and 104th Avenue has a south-facing wall with 500 solar […]

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