UCY ‘fully green’ by 2016

The University of Cyprus (UCY) aspires by 2016 to become the first university in the world that is fully non-dependent on conventional electricity, it said on Thursday.

With the completion of the ‘Apollon’ photovoltaic park, the university will be solely dependent on the sun for energy, the announcement said.

“We wish to rank UCY among the best universities in the world relative to its functionality and its environmental consciousness,” the university’s rector Constantinos Christofides said.

He added that the university aimed at balanced economic development in harmony with nature.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.