wind power
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The UK government has continued its ripping up of archaic planning rules to cut grid connection waiting times.
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Nokia is set to provide optical networking solutions for the European offshore transmission operator TenneT, connecting its wind farms in the North Sea to the land.
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Neos Networks has confirmed that it is to provide the communications links from the Viking Energy Wind Farm, likely to be one of the biggest onshore wind farms in the world, and headquarters of the company building it, SSE Renewables.
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Equinix in Finland is planning to get 42MW of its power from the wind, following an agreement with suppliers Neoen and Prokon.
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Vodafone UK has installed what it calls its first self-powered base station, using wind power.
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Amazon has started up its first Scottish windfarm, just 60km from Glasgow, where the global COP26 climate conference starts this weekend.
Forthcoming events
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The investor that owns HGC Global Communications and the former infrastructure division of GTT Communications is to spend up to US$500 million in renewable energy in Europe.
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As the world catches fire, are data centres helping us improve the climate emergency or making it worse? It’s hard to be precise, Alan Burkitt-Gray finds
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A UK windfarm is to install its own cloud-based private 4G and 5G network using open RAN technology from Mavenir.
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The availability of power is the most important factor in the decision-making process for a new data centre, according to new research.
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Vodafone says it has achieved a promise made in July 2020 that its European networks will be 100% powered from renewable sources by next week.
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Japanese telco and data centre operator NTT wants to generate 12% of Japan’s renewable electricity by 2030, the company has announced.