The £800 million Countesswells Development, which involves the creation of a new town with 3,000 homes and various spaces for business / schools near to Aberdeen, has claimed that it will also be the “first community in Scotland” to provide residents with access to “hyperfast” 1Gbps broadband. The Press and Journal reports that Stewart [...]

Urban fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has signed a new supply agreement with Nottingham City Homes (NCH), which means that council residents at the Victoria Centre Flats and The Woodlands will soon be able to access ultrafast broadband via Fibre-to-the-Premises technology. NCH is an arms’ length management organisation of Nottingham City Council, which means that the council owns the homes [...]

Gigaclear has announced that their “ultrafast” Gigabit capable fibre optic broadband network, which covers tens of thousands of premises in various rural areas across England, is now set to be powered by electricity from 100% renewable sources thanks to a new deal with Ecotricity. Under the agreement Ecotricity will supply [...]

There is little debate that the U.S. power grid, in the years to come, will continue to be a combination of fossil fuels and renewables. This energy mix is arguably the best way to sustain the world’s growing appetite for energy, especially in places like the United States where per [...]

The £410 million Digital Scotland project with BT (Openreach) has announced that £15.6 million from contract clawback (Gainshare) will be reinvested to raise the number of homes and businesses that have access to “superfast broadband” speeds of greater than 24Mbps. At present the project has already helped to make FTTC/P [...]

Oil prices are down nearly 10% over the past month, leading some to wonder if we're set for a resumption of the plunge seen between 2014 and early 2016. Executives at oil companies, however, are optimistic. A new note from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. dives into fourth quarter earnings calls [...]

The UK and Ireland are the joint third worst countries out of the 28 EU member states for achieving 2020 renewable energy targets, according to statistics from Eurostat released today. Britain has an objective of generating 15% of its gross final energy consumption from renewables by the end of the [...]

BT has bowed to demands by the telecoms regulator Ofcom to legally separate Openreach, which runs the UK's broadband infrastructure. Ofcom said that Openreach will become a distinct company with its own staff, management and strategy "to serve all of its customers equally". It must consult with customers such as [...]

The Superfast Worcestershire (England) project with BT (Openreach), which is currently working to make “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) services available to “more than” 95% of the county in 2017, has announced that an extra 3,000 premises will benefit from a £3.7 million expansion. At present around 92% of local homes and [...]

ITE reported this week on the following projects for 2017. Do some research and perhaps there may be an opportunity there for you. 2016 was another interesting year for the oil and gas industry, with oil prices gradually stabilising and major producers reacting in different ways. Despite more budget cuts [...]

The community funded and built Fibre for Rural Nottinghamshire (F4RN) project, which has been inspired by B4RN and aims to cover the whole of rural Fiskerton and Morton with a 100Mbps+ Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network, has completed its first roll-out phase and connected 83 customers. We first covered this project nearly [...]

Siemens Wind Power will, for the first time, provide complete offshore wind power plant solutions including foundations for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind project. Hohe See owner EnBW has now made a final investment decision for its 497-MW offshore wind power plant. Starting in early 2018 the large wind [...]