IT

Microsoft's energy master plan

Ultimately, its innovations could become a big selling advantage for its cloud services

IT
24 August 2018

E.ON teams up with Berkeley Homes to trial smart home concept

Future Energy Home pilot will study how well smart home technologies sync with everyday life

Infrastructure
17 August 2018

Centrica revs up business EV charging service with Driivz deal

Energy giant joins $12m funding round in deal that will see Driivz software functionality provided to Centrica customers

Automotive
06 August 2018

Why IBM obsesses over energy efficiency

Plus, perspective on why the cloud software giant doesn't use unbundled renewable energy certificates

IT
13 July 2018

Tech to #endwildlifecrime: A new strand of the #techforgood story

Saving endangered species is just one of the ways technology can help improve the world, says techUK's Susanne Baker

IT
29 June 2018

How can a wireless network help both rhino resilience and water quality?

They're called low-power wide-area networks — LPWANs — and they're changing how we can collect data

IT
15 June 2018

All at sea: Microsoft trials renewables-powered underwater Orkney data centre

IT giant believes under water data centres powered by wave and tidal energy may help provide energy efficient, superfast internet browsing in future

Marine
07 June 2018

Ben and Jerry's scoop blockchain pilot to serve up carbon-offset ice-cream

Ice cream giant partners with Poseidon to allow customers to offset carbon impact of ice cream purchase with blockchain technology

IT
30 May 2018

Bitcoin now uses as much energy as Ireland

Electricity consumption doubled in the last six months with the trajectory likely to continue, says PwC economist

IT
21 May 2018

Why data is an essential nutrient for AeroFarms crops

Urban agriculture pioneer reveals how it is working with Dell to help optimise production

Technology
11 May 2018

#planettech - AI for sustainability

TechUK's Susanne Baker explores how the exciting world of AI could be recruited in the race to develop sustainable business models

Technology
10 May 2018

M&S teams up with Dearman to take the climate heat out of chilled deliveries

Dearman's clean cold technology will be trialled by M&S to see if it could be suitable for nationwide use

IT
03 May 2018

Megadrones, self-driving cars and 3D-printed buildings: Is this the low carbon city of the future?

PwC's new VR experience is aimed at preparing companies for the myriad disruptions presented by climate and technological change - BusinessGreen takes a tour

IT
30 April 2018

We need to be smarter at designing 'smart cities' programmes to make urban areas greener

Too often initiatives for 'smart cities' skate over the environmental challenges, argues the EIC's Matthew Farrow

IT
30 April 2018

Clean tech opportunity: Government launches £1bn AI sector deal

Ministers aim to make UK an AI research hot spot as clean tech firms seek to exploit machine learning opportunities

IT
26 April 2018

Rewiring the workplace: How Energi Mine promises to change employee behaviour to save company cash

The start-up believes a blockchain-based reward system could be the answer to workplace energy saving - and National Rail is its first guinea pig

IT
23 April 2018

Meet Daisy, Apple's latest robot for recovering and reusing iPhone components

Launched this week, Daisy helps dissemble iPhones for reuse and recycling

IT
20 April 2018

Verv completes UK's first blockchain energy trade

Residents of the Hackney Banister House Estate sent excess solar energy from one housing block to another over encrypted trading platform

IT
17 April 2018

Uncle Ben's dials in augmented reality to reveal rice supply chain

Shoppers in France can use AR app to find out information on where their rice has come from

IT
06 April 2018

How smartphones are heating up the planet

Smart phones are rarely recycled and that's just one reason tech devices are increasing our carbon footprints, says Lotfi BelkhiR from McMaster University