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Businesses will stand to benefit first from “game-changing” 5G connectivity, according to Orange CEO Stephane Richard – with consumer adoption still a few years away. Addressing French businesses,

San Francisco Mayor London Breed wants to use PG&E Corp.’s bankruptcy to take over some of the company’s assets for the city’s power needs, a move that would shake up California’s largest utility and remake the state’s energy landscape.

Duke Energy Corp. will develop six utility-scale solar power projects in North Carolina that may cost up to $404 million as part of the state’s bid to boost renewable energy.

Scottish business has been weakened by continued uncertainty over Brexit, according to the latest report from the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC). The Q1 report shows that levels

Yuba College, a community college part of the Yuba Community College District, this week completed a 1-MW solar carport installation that it says could result in $10 million of avoided utility costs over the life of the system. The District purchased the solar outright, which resulted in optimal savings.

(Thu, 18 Apr 2019) EIA’s <em>Short-Term Energy Outlook</em> forecasts that the typical U.S. residential household will consume about 3,080 kilowatthours of electricity this summer (June through August), down 5% from the average summer consumption in 2018. If this forecast is realized, it would be the lowest level of electricity consumption per customer since 2014 and the second-lowest level since 2001.

(Thu, 18 Apr 2019) In 2017, Brazil was the eighth-largest energy consumer in the world and the third-largest energy consumer in the Americas, behind the United States and Canada. Discoveries of large, offshore, pre-salt oil deposits have transformed Brazil into a major world producer of petroleum and other liquids.

Building solar and wind energy projects on potentially contaminated lands can be a golden opportunity, both effective and cost-effective, for developers. The 120-acre Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation Superfund site was recently redeveloped with a utility-scale solar farm and is a prime example of the reuse potential inherent in thousands of Superfund sites, brownfields, retired power plants, and landfills.

A new career map, Careers in Climate Control Technology, provides a first-of-its-kind interactive, visual tool to showcase the employment opportunities that exist in the swiftly growing HVAC/R industry – Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. The sector is on track for projected growth of 15 percent from 2016 to 2026.

As plans for wind farms across New England’s waters progress, fishermen continue to express concerns about the impact of the burgeoning offshore wind industry on their livelihoods.

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