solar power
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Intersect Power, a US-based clean energy provider, has penned partnerships with Google and TPG Rise Climate (TPG) to supply power and storage solutions for data centres. -
Global data centre operator Equinix has signed a 10-year virtual power purchase agreement with renewable energy firm Neoen to supply 53 MW of solar power to support its facilities in Italy.
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Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has called on mobile network operators to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Equinix has increased its backing of renewable power projects with the addition of five new long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain totalling 225 megawatts.
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French renewable energy company Engie has signed power purchase agreements with data centre operator Digital Realty and French telco Iliad.
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Orange is to use solar power for one fifth of the energy needed by one of its major satellite stations.
Forthcoming events
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Orange is accelerating its solar projects in Africa and the Middle East to reduce its carbon footprint to zero by 2040.
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Deutsche Telekom has demonstrated high-speed 4G mobile transmission from a remotely powered aircraft in a project to test ways to expand rural coverage.
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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.
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Turkcell has opened the doors to its first solar-powered data centre in Ankara, Turkey.
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India is lending Nigeria $100 million to install 1,000 solar-powered base stations to expand rural coverage.
