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City of Cape Town signs solar power deals for electricity up to 21 percent cheaper than Eskom
Cape Town has signed two 20-year power purchase agreements to buy 70MW of solar power from independent producers in Atlantis and Philippi. The city says the agreements will provide power at rates below current Eskom prices The City of Cape Town has…
New plug-in solar panels could cut energy bills by £150 a year
Households can now buy plug-in solar panels that connect to a normal electrical socket following a major change to the rules governing solar power in Great Britain. The new systems could help households cut electricity bills without the expense or…
As China-US space race heats up, Shanghai unveils space-computing hub
As China ramps up its efforts to build an orbital data ecosystem and counter the US in the commercial space race, Shanghai – home to several major domestic players – has kicked off an inaugural space-computing forum alongside a new…
NASA Small Business Subcontracting Program - BAE Systems
BAE Systems provides our customers with a vital advantage through world-class defense capabilities across the air, land, maritime, space, and cyber domains. We accelerate the pace of innovation by leveraging qualified small businesses that can meet…
Tata Power Renewable Energy commissions 100 MW solar project in Kayathar, Tamil Nadu
Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL), the renewable energy subsidiary of The Tata Power Company, has successfully commissioned its 100 Mega Watt(MW) Group Captive Solar Project (TNGC-2) at Vellalankottai and Nalandhula villages in Kayathar…
Headline Newds: Meet the OnlyFans stars taking on climate change
In a bid to bring public attention to the global climate crisis, a group of filmmakers have taken an unusual approach; recruiting OnlyFans stars. This year alone has seen countries around the world gripped by devastating wildfires amid extreme…
How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand
All it took to turn the murky, heavily polluted waters of South Africa's Stiebeuel River into a resource clean enough for irrigating a community's vegetable plots was a collection of stones, heat-treated wood and sand. Without chemicals and using…
What are homes getting back from their solar panels?
This is an extract from the latest edition of Temperature Check, The Journal's monthly climate newsletter, which was sent to subscribers last week. Sign up at the end of this article to receive Temperature Check to your email inbox. With how grey…
Nepal floods expose risks to hydropower in a warming Himalayas
Workers shoveled thick mud from a flood-ravaged power station in central Nepal, trying to revive a key node that supplies electricity to more than 20,000 people. But as they cleared debris from equipment buried by last week's catastrophic floods…
Nearly 1,000 people are missing in Nepal's floods, and hundreds more are trapped in hydropower tunnels as flood knocks 10% of power capacity offline
Workers shoveled thick mud from a flood-ravaged power station in central Nepal, trying to revive a key node that supplies electricity to more than 20,000 people. But as they cleared debris from equipment buried by last week's catastrophic floods…
Net Zero Is Dying: Blackouts, High Costs & the Politicians and CEOs Who Quietly Changed Their Minds.
What a difference a few years make. Not long ago, politicians said climate change was going to kill us, so we must move to “net zero” emissions. This is theoretically possible. Since vegetation removes carbon, we could get to net zero…
Australian varsity invites Singareni to enter exploration of critical minerals
A delegation from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, met top executives of the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) and invited the coal mining company to explore opportunities for collaboration in Australia, particularly in the area of…
Can Safer Fuel Power A Nuclear Energy Boom?
Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. (*Note: Current Climate will take Sept. 7 off for the Labor Day holiday, and return on Monday, Sept. 14). Welcome back to…
Renewable energy co Lanir to raise NIS 176m in TASE IPO
Despite the cooling of the IPO market, the flow of companies seeking to list shares for trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) continues. One such candidate is renewable energy company Lanir Group, which published a prospectus earlier this…
China's First Bamboo Offshore Solar Platform Could Change How We Build for Energy at Sea
For centuries, people along China's rivers and coasts lashed bamboo together and trusted one of nature's lightest building materials to keep them above the water. Bamboo rafts and boats were simple, cheap and remarkably buoyant — but they…
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