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Continuing the series of articles written by the Department of Energy exploring the 2011 Energy White Paper, this article will focus on the concept of energy conservation. Energy conservation is the avoidance of energy consumption, usually through ad...

Solar and other renewable energy sources may be cleaner and cost-effective elsewhere, but in Bermuda they are still considerably more expensive than oil. This from Belco after former CIA director James Woolsey urged Bermuda to go solar in a speech to...

Bermuda needs to end its dependence on high-priced imported oil for its power and fuel needs. That was the message from James Woolsey, the former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, as he spoke at Business Bermuda’s AGM yesterday. He sugg...

Wine and spirit distributor Gosling’s is set to install the largest commercial solar panel system in Bermuda to date. Local company Alternative Energy Systems (AES) has been awarded the contract to engineer, design, supply and install a 570-panel pho...

Solar power is being adopted on the Island at an increasing rate, with the number of applications for solar developments doubling year-on-year. According to a Government spokesperson, 51 applications were made for solar developments in 2011, more tha...

Alternative Energy Systems (Bermuda) Ltd. (AES) yesterday announces it has been given approval by Gorham’s True Value Home Centre to complete the second installation of the photovoltaic solar energy system to generate electricity at its store in Pemb...

A technology that converts sewage into energy in the form of methane could be rolled out across Bermuda in the next few years if tests prove to be successful. The Biogas Energy Systems (BGE) is planned to be used in a feasibility study carried out by...

In 1910 Thomas Edison, the founder of the commercial electricity industry, was quoted as saying, “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ‘til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” To...

Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy Minister Walter Roban took part in a panel discussion on energy issues in Barbados last week at the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum 2011. The panel also included the Minister responsible for energy i...

Last month, in the first installment of our 2011 Bermuda Energy White Paper series, we looked at why there is an immediate need for Bermuda to change its energy consumption behaviour, and why these bad habits are basically unsustainable. This time, ...