Tag: sustainability
SoftBank and Foxconn team up with Bharti to form $20bn solar venture in India
Japanese operator Softbank and Taiwan-based iPhone assembler Foxconn Technology Group have formed a three-way joint venture with one of India's leading business groups, Bharti Enterprises,...
GE signs deal with TerraForm Global to boost international wind growth
GE announced a $25 million investment in US renewables pace-setter SunEdison yieldco, TerraForm Global.
The investment marks GE as the first wind manufacturer included in...
Kimberly-Clark releases 2014/15 Sustainability Progress Report
Kimberly-Clark Australia & New Zealand has released its 2014/15 Sustainability Progress Report highlighting the company’s progress against its sustainability efforts within its People, Planet...
Downer EDI wins $130m wind farm project
Engineering and infrastructure company Downer EDI has announced that it has been awarded a $130 million contract for work on a new wind farm...
Australia’s largest PV power station gets go ahead to feed full capacity into grid
The Nyngan solar PV plant – part of the $440 million AGL solar project, which is supported by $166.7 million from ARENA and $64.9 million from...
Panasonic tests solar battery storage system in Australia – inks deals with 3 Aussie...
Electronics giant Panasonic has struck agreements with three Australian energy utilities to trial its home-based battery storage options.
The company has announced pilot projects with...
Audi and Global Bioenergies develop “e-benzin” without the use of petroleum (VIDEO)
Audi has partnered up with Global Bioenergies to develop a new type of fuel named “e-benzin” from plant sugars.
Global Bioenergies is one of the...
Tesla to use Aussie Reposit Power technology
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) provided $445,000 in funding for Reposit Power (Reposit) to trial an on-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) energy storage and...
Australian solar technology installed in Cyprus
Technology from CSIRO’s Newcastle Energy Centre has been successfully installed at the Cyprus Institute research facility - the premier research institute on the island...
Apple goes green in China
It seems that Apple is truly committed to power all its operations on 100% renewable energy.
A team of Apple execs, including CEO Tim Cook...