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Warwickshire Council was blamed to contributing to the death of a university student whilst trying to cut costs by switching off streetlights. Archie Wellbelove was hit by a taxi and killed on 7th December, 2012 when coming home from a night out. Mr. Wellbelove, who was in his first year at Warwick University, studying English and French was Read more...

The creation of a new CCTV camera (Kintense), with a built in monitoring system designed to detect aggressive behaviour was presented at the SenSys conference in Rome, Italy, earlier this month. The skeletal recognition tech behind Kinect is useful for more than just gaming used with Microsoft's gaming sensor. Kintense, a system designed Read more...

An electrician has sustained burns to his face, wrists and hands after an ‘arc flashover’. A Dundee man Gordon Roberts, aged 38 at the time of the incident spent 9 days in hospital for treatment of his injuries on December 2nd 2010. McGill Electrical Ltd was fined a sum of £2,000 after the company admitted breaching Health and Safety Read more...

A local Long Jetty man, Peter Knight, claims he will not be bullied into having his electricity credit meter changed. He has gone to the extent of padlocking his meter in an attempt to resist a new electricity meter installation by the Ausgrid technicians.  Fashion importer and wholesaler, Mr Knight said, “Bring it on, I will be ready. This Read more...

Imagine a home which would automatically switch off the lights for you whenever the sun appears; a home which could tell you when you are ‘out and about’, that your son has left the T.V and playstation on; or even a house which has been developed with micro glass sphere-enriched paint on the walls which has properties making it ideal for Read more...

KSA who are a leading figure in the Saudi Arabian electrical industry have suggested that by adopting new power and energy conservation methods, the country could save up to $26.7 billion. Sami Akeel, the vice president of Sawary Energy has recently highlighted the experiences of foreign countries which have reduced power consumption by nearly Read more...

Due to residents struggling to heat their homes with the recent rise in oil prices, a new group has been set up to buy home heating oil in bulk in the town of Magherafelt. The idea for creating the ‘Oil club’ originated in Glenravel in Co. Antrim, the new Magherafelt ‘Oil club’ have claimed that already they have made savings of Read more...

An innovation company, Netatmo which develops consumer electronics for a better connected lifestyle, has unveiled the Thermostat designed by Starck. The Thermostat’s intelligent design was invented to be used by smartphones or other smart devices. It allows the user to control the heating in a remote way while reducing energy consumption at Read more...

Eaton, a power management company with its Cooper Lighting division are proving that LED fixtures can provide a Georgia based car dealership with more than just energy savings. Eaton’s Cooper Lighting business alongside Georgia Power installed 76 Streetworks Galleon LED Fixtures, with energy savings of up to 60%as well as an impressive Read more...

Consumers will now save their money and help dispose of 500 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year due to the heat from a Northern Underground line being piped to their homes in the Islington area. The project was recently announced by the Islington council in conjunction with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson’s initiative of harnessing secondary Read more...