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While sub-Saharan Africa has seen robust economic growth, access to electricity is lagging behind. Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has called on British industry to support the development of renewable energy in Africa, highlighting the economic value of establishing a firm base in the continent.

A report from the UK's Public Accounts Committee claims that clean-up costs at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing field have risen by £2.5bn in the last year. Julian Turner analyses the complex decommissioning process and asks why the mammoth project continues to be beset by delays.

GE and Miahona, a subsidiary of the Arabian Company for Water and Power Development, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to facilitate a reliable water supply in Saudi Arabia through the deployment of wastewater treatment technology.

CST Industries, a company that designs, manufactures, and installs storage tanks and covers, has introduced a new modular Aquus PW water treatment system that produces potable water without using moving parts, energy or chemicals.

American Custom GolfCars (ACG), a company that develops custom vehicles, golf carts, and low-speed electric vehicles (EVs), has introduced the new neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV), Golf Cart, and Estate Vehicle model: The '39.

Siemens Government Services (SGS), an integrator of Siemens' products and services to the federal government, has secured a $38.5m task order from the General Services Administration (GSA) to implement energy efficiency improvements to 39 federal government facilities.

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First, the dark beer-colored sewage is pulled through a series of tubes stuffed with thousands of fibers pierced with holes 1/300th the size of a human hair. Anything larger than 0.2 millionth of a meter - which includes suspended solids and bacteria - is left behind. The cleansed water is then forced at high pressure through hundreds of tubes that are filled with tightly wound plastic membranes. Reverse osmosis, as the process is called, stops nonwater molecules - including viruses and pharmaceuticals.

Using the power of Google's search engine to promote energy alternatives, this search engine maintains an exclusive index of almost 1,500 green websites in the energy planet directory.

Wow - this is really awesome! Reduce water usage by 90%, and energy consumption by 98% in washing a typical load. Brilliant.

SunEdison, a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, has won a three-year, $50m construction loan from Rabobank International to build solar power plants in the US.

Uniti, an industrial titanium joint venture between Allegheny Technologies and Verkhnaya Salda Metallurgical Production Association, has secured a contract from Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction of Korea to supply titanium for a seawater desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.

The increased construction of desalination plants due to the steady fall in the cost of several key technologies for seawater-to-freshwater conversion is projected to generate a cumulative capital investment of $87.8bn worldwide from 2010 to 2016, says a report from Pike Research.

SAIL Venture Partners said that its portfolio company Xtreme Power, a provider of Dynamic Power Resources (DPRs), and Xcel Energy have formed a partnership to deploy a 1MW system to collect operational data on the integration of energy storage and solar energy systems in US.