Ace News Desk – Twenty kilometers outside Antsirabe, Madagascar, the Mateliona Betafo health center provides essential care to a rural community. For years, midwife Lovatiana Rasoarinjanahary delivered babies at night by candlelight, torch or the fading battery of a mobile phone. That changed in 2024, when a stand-alone solar system, part of a World Bank Group-supported project that electrified […]
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Ace Business Desk – EU Leads Fight Against Fossil-Fuel Nations’ Push to Delay Climate Science Reports according to Attracta Mooney, The Financial Times A “high ambition coalition” of the EU and ministers from “more than 30 countries” has “joined forces in a co-ordinated effort to thwart a push…to delay key scientific reports on the warming […]
Ace Business Desk – In short: Tasmania’s environmental watchdog is concerned Firmus plans on using 276 diesel generators far more often than it first disclosed. The EPA has now applied to join as a party to a TASCAT appeal, where Firmus is seeking to have conditions around its generator use removed: By Emily Smith Published: […]
Ace Finance Desk – In 2008, wind turbines arrived in Iowa’s Howard County; by 2024-25, 147 turbines generated $2.71 million in taxes and helped fund 30+ bridge projects and 20 miles of paving by TOI World Desk When wind turbines first appeared across Howard County in northeastern Iowa in 2008, they became part of the […]
Ace Finance Desk – A booklet published by the UK’s opposition Conservative party includes a “cost of net-zero” that appears to have been doubled by a spreadsheet error according to Carbon Brief The “common sense” policy document argues that “what people ultimately want is a government competent enough to solve the problems for which it […]
Ace Breaking News – Britain spends £1.5bn switching wind off and gas on Good afternoon. Britain has already spent more this year switching wind farms off and gas plants on than it did throughout last year. The bill: £1.51bn. Energy suppliers, meanwhile, warn of the worst winter crisis since 2022. Labour’s promise of cheaper energy looks […]
Ace Breaking News – Competition watchdog clears takeover despite concerns that suppliers will have less incentive to lower bills according to The Guardian Business News by Jillian Ambrose E.ON Next deal to buy Ovo Energy leaves UK with just ‘big three’ energy suppliers Almost three-quarters of households in Great Britain are now served by just […]
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