Posts Categorized: Environment

Blockchain Project Wins Dutch International Energy Hackathon

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After a full weekend and 48 intense hours of collaboration, excitement and solution-finding, the best idea according to a jury of industry experts was a project called EcoCoin at Hackenergy 2016. The hackathon was sponsored by ENGIE Nederland,  Energy Academy Europe, the City and Province of Groningen – and backed by Groningen’s IBM Client Innovation… Read more »

Providing Power in Sub-Saharan Africa, Startup SoloGrid Joins Global Off-Grid Lighting Association

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SoloGrid (www.sologrid.com), a new breed of renewable energy technology company that seeks to join off-the-grid users to the connected world with life-changing amounts of power, announced today that it has been accepted for membership in the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA), an independent, not-for-profit association. An estimated 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to… Read more »