And bringing electricity to 20 Million People. Well get the inside track on one firms plans to use solar energy to power millions of homes in africa without installing expensive networks and cables. And as the work week eases into christmas, we want to know what is suitable Office Attire . Is it your Christmas Jumper . Or your glittery shoes . Let us know with pictures what youre wearing to work this week. Just use the hashtag bbc biz live. Hello and welcome to business live. Lets start in the United States because the worlds biggest economy is on the brink of its most sweeping tax changes in a generation. The Senate Passed the reforms just before 1am washington time. Congress just needs to hold one more procedural vote before President Trump can claim his first, big, legislative win. This entire package is likely to cost 1. 1; trillion over the next ten years. Most of that will be added to the National Debt which is already over 20 trillion. The biggest tax cut in the final version dr
National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the numbers from the National Academy of sciences and said they really drive me to the judgment that Climate Change is the scientific equivalent of a speeding mack truck. But, madam president , i believe numbers really dont capture this discussion fully because what people really want to know is whats the impact of Climate Change in their community . What does it really mean for them in actually their part of our country . So to get into those impacts, i want to start with one that is really shellacking my home state, and that is these wildfires that are burning longer, getting hotter and starting earlier. Drought and high temperatures from Climate Change are driving all of this. During the early part of this past year, fires and intense wildfires burned across parts of the United States, threatening Population Centers and destroying hundreds of homes, and this winter, fires have already burned in western oregon, something that used to b
Stefan Wippich, the CEO and co-founder of Germany's SecondSol platform, recently spoke with <b>pv magazine</b> about the development of the used PV module market. Wippich noted national differences and argued that it will be important to set rules for the trading of secondhand products.