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Plans by Belco to adjust its rates for customers who install solar power are to be reviewed. The utility company made its request to the Energy Commission on August 15 to change its rates for residential net metering and commercially renewable energy...

An open call has been issued to prequalify companies seeking to participate in the tender process to build a solar power facility on land adjacent to L.F. Wade International Airport. The Bermuda Government is seeking a six megawatt AC solar power pho...

Bermuda is continuing to explore and implement renewable and “cleaner” energy options, and is seeking to have renewable sources meet 35 per cent of the island’s electricity needs by 2025. That aspiration was reiterated by Grant Gibbons, the Minister ...

HSBC Bermuda is backing green energy with a new loans scheme. The bank said that its new Green Loan scheme was a simple and affordable way for customers to invest in solar energy and energy-saving products. The deal offers 100 per cent financing, HSB...

A link-up between DHL Express and schools in Bermuda could see students create a portable, low-cost solar energy solutions that can be implemented for less than $50,000. Secondary school students have been challenged to invent a solar-powered solutio...

Green energy firm BE Solar is at the cutting edge of solar power — but the firm is 80-plus years old and a pioneer in the field of clean power. Part of the Bermuda Engineering Company, created in 1935, the founder Gordon Burland pioneered the first w...

A green-energy entrepreneur is to host a series of events designed to cut fossil fuel use and pollution. Mohamed Hamza’s Dragonfly company will three hour-and-a-half seminars at Hamilton’s Pier Six on Friday and Saturday. Mr Hamza said: “There is a e...

Bermuda could be a testing ground for a prototype technology that generates electricity from slow-moving water currents. And in the long-run the Island might be able to harness a constant, renewable energy source to reduce or replace its reliance on ...

One of the drawbacks of solar energy is the difficulty in storing it, so the power can be used even when the sun is not shining. Bermuda Alternate Energy Ltd (BAE) said today that it will be offering a solution to that problem following the announcem...

The construction of Bermuda’s first solar farm near the airport is still potentially on the cards, Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons has revealed. Dr Gibbons told the House of Assembly on Wednesday that the Department of Energy would develo...

Solar energy may no longer be the preserve of the wealthy as affordable self-installation kits take to the Bermuda market. The installation process may not be for everyone but Bermuda Engineering Company says that anyone who is “hands-on” will be abl...

A call for a focus on sustainability was made by Dr Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development, when he opened the Bermuda Energy Summit. The Minister said Bermuda needed to “reframe” the way it thought about energy as well as examine alter...