by chris | Feb 9, 2021 | Energy, Sustainable Business
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters has struck a new deal with Meridian Energy which means the smelter will remain open until at least Decemeber 2024. We don’t yet know the prices that Rio Tinto has agreed with Meridian, but Forsyth Barr estimates that Rio will be paying...
by RichardGardiner | Aug 17, 2020 | Sustainable Business
Back in the 1950’s when I was born, the global population was 2.75 billion and it had taken roughly 2 million years to reach this figure. During my lifetime, the world’s population has nearly tripled to 7.5 billion. This population explosion has helped to ruin...
by chris | Jul 13, 2020 | Energy, Sustainable Business
The deployment of grid‐connected photovoltaic (solar PV) systems continues to grow at an impressive rate. In 2018, there was a 30% increase in systems implemented and it continues to move forward. Most of this growth involves residential systems, which have an 80%...
by DavidSpratt | Jun 14, 2020 | Sustainable Business
Staying Sane When Locked Up This post follows on from Are you OK? which you might like to read as well. Covid-19 Confessions What has occurred to me is just how anxious so many of us have become during Covid-19 lockdown. Simple things like supermarket shopping and big...
by chris | Jun 14, 2020 | Sustainable Business
Improve manufacturing operations and cut costs by setting operational efficiency KPIs. In the last 3 months the global economy has been turned on it’s head due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In light of this, manufacturers are faced with the pressures of producing...
by chris | May 25, 2020 | Energy, Sustainable Business
If you don’t know precisely how, when and where energy is being used across your business, how can you understand where your energy costs really lie, or the best opportunities to improve energy and operational performance? Working together with Centrica...
