The US has pulled the plug on the sale of incandescent light bulbs as a new law goes into effect with the goal of promoting greener and more efficient options. The ban on ‘normal’ light bulbs has come into force in the US 16 years after it was initially announced. The new
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To check rising energy costs ravaging the economy from which the telecoms industry is not immune, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) is on the verge of introducing policies that would encourage the sector to adopt clean and sustainable energy sources. Besides, the policy is also targeted at helping to reduce
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Climate change may affect the future stability of grid-connected solar power systems—something that needs to be considered in the planning of Australia's renewable energy transition. Modeling conducted by researchers from UNSW Sydney shows the magnitude, frequency and duration of disruptive solar generation events, called ramps, will significantly change over the next
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Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai and a ministerial nominee has proposed stringent measures in the electricity sector to help boost the sector. It includes hardline stance against those that bypass metering. He made the proposal during the screening of ministerial nominees submitted to the Senate by President Bola Tinubu. El-Rufai said
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Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for a novel, low-cost energy storage system, according to a new
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The UK government is looking to train the tens of thousands of workers needed to build nuclear power stations and submarines. The government is reacting to warnings that the UK lacks the skilled workers needed to deliver on the country’s target of building 24GW of new nuclear power-generating capacity by 2050. The
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The Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited has said that out of the 4,000 megawatts of electricity that is mostly available from the National Integrated Power Projects, only an average of 700MW is being dispatched, It explained that the reason for this was due to electricity load rejection by power distribution
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Electricity generating companies (GenCos) are not turning on their full thermal plant capacity due to a drop in gas supply, and this is showing up in the decline in power generated for the grid. For over a week, power supplied to the national grid has fallen below 4,000 megawatts (MW) with
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Researchers have created a robot capable of conducting experiments more efficiently and sustainably to develop a range of new semiconductor materials with desirable attributes. The researchers have already demonstrated that the new technology, called RoboMapper, can rapidly identify new perovskite materials with improved stability and solar cell efficiency. "RoboMapper allows us
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Can renewable energy microfinance promote financial inclusion and empower the vulnerable? That is the question research in the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development seeks to answer. Andrea Gatto of Wenzhou-Kean University in Zheijiang, China, has explored the concept of energy microfinance to see how this promising approach might address
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