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Belco workers have taken to the water to lay underground cables to the East End. The company said this month that the cable route runs from Hamilton Parish near the west end of the Coney Island Road bridge, across Grotto Bay, exiting the water on Ki...

Approval has been given to change control at the Finger solar farm beside the airport. The Regulatory Authority said that its consent to the transfer will mean that FB Solar LLC — owned by the Bermuda Infrastructure Fund — will become the “indirect p...

Electricity bills will go up on Friday after a rate increase for the island’s power provider was approved. The Regulatory Authority, which oversees energy and telecommunications in Bermuda, has given Belco the green light for a hike of about 11.4 per...

In or around 1776, Paul Revere was cited as saying “The British are coming, the British are coming!!” There are some disputes as to whether it should be to him or someone else that those famous words are attributed. Yet, what is undeniable is that, ...

A solar panel supplier has offered a product designed to blend in better with the island’s traditional white roofs. Cameron Smith, the executive director of Greenlight Energy, said the company had already pre-sold half its first shipment of white sol...

Reduced electricity bills could be in the pipeline if government revenue and expenditure pan out as predicted this year. The pledge was one of several relief measures promised by David Burt, the Premier and finance minister, during yesterday’s Budget...

The first of Bermuda’s new electric bus fleet have arrived on the island. The 30 buses, built by the Golden Dragon Bus Company in China, are expected to be on the roads in the next four to six weeks. Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, said in...

The amount of fuel imported to Bermuda fell by almost 50 per cent in 2020 as the island dealt with the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the 2021 Environmental Statistics Compendium, released on Friday, 96.5 million kilograms of fuel ...

The public have been asked for their views on a proposed change of ownership at the island’s first large-scale solar farm. An application published on the Regulatory Authority website said that a deal was struck in September between Saturn Power, the...

Energy industry watchdogs have extended the consultation period on proposed regulations for large scale self-supply of electricity. The Regulatory Authority said it had pushed back the deadline from Monday until January 6 because of “heightened inter...

Work to demolish old generators and buildings at power firm Belco has started, the company announced. The firm will take down buildings and remove material which is too hazardous or out-of-date to use. Wayne Caines, Belco’s president, said the projec...

Electricity from Bermuda’s first large-scale solar farm has started to feed into the island’s electricity grid, power firm Belco revealed yesterday. A Belco spokesman said that the six-megawatt solar farm – on a disused runway at the airport called t...