Sustainability

Apple patents technology incorporating green power into devices

Apple has patented a technology titled “Wireless Devices With Touch Sensors And Solar Cells”. The technology involves incorporation of solar cells into touch display surfaces...

Green Climate Fund completes accreditation of Africa Finance Corporation

Green Climate Fund (GCF) has completed accreditation of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) as a partnering Institution. The development makes AFC the first African development...

Galapagos gets world’s first entirely green powered airport

The Galapagos Islands has gotten the world’s first ‘green’ airport. Solar and wind energy completely power the eco-airport located on Baltra Island. The airport also...

Global smart lighting market could include 2.5 bn systems by 2020

The global smart lighting market is expanding in tune with the development of Internet of Things (IoT). According to US-based information technology research and advisory...

Greensmith launches energy storage system audit service StorageCheck

Greensmith has launched StorageCheck, an audit service for energy storage systems. The grid-scale energy storage software and integration solutions provider has stated that its service...

Amazon to power cloud data center operations with clean energy

Amazon has taken another decisive step toward using clean energy to power operations, particularly of its data centers supporting its cloud computing service. The global...

Aurora promises big savings with its sales and design software

Aurora, a solar sales and design specialist company, has developed software that helps installers create finalized proposal for projects “in less than 15 minutes”. ALSO...

Fujitsu cooling technology for data centers can halve energy consumption

Data centers of large-scale, internet-based companies could halve their expenditure on energy for cooling with a solution developed by Fujitsu. The company has stated that...