According to Yanko Yanev, head of IAEA’s Nuclear Knowledge Management program, in order to have qualified human resources, it is necessary for Vietnam to introduce preferential policies for talented people.

Accordingly, the two sides will go ahead with My Ly and Nam Mo hydroelectric power projects in Ky Son district, Nghe An province, and draw up plans for further cooperation and investment in hydropower between Vietnam and Laos.

The first competition for solar-energy fueled toy vehicles in Vietnam opened at the HCM City Hi-Tech Park by the HCM City Department of Science and Technology on October 24.

Among the many factors keeping wind power projects from getting their legs is the annoying and sometimes dangerous tendency for moving wind turbines to mimic aircraft on an air traffic controller’s radar screen.

The world's first low-carbon, battery-powered passenger ferries are being built on the banks of the Clyde. Described as the first seagoing hybrid ferries in the world, the two small roll-on roll-off ferries will carry holidaymakers, islanders and vehicles across the waters around Skye and the Inner Hebrides.

Porous crystals called metal-organic frameworks, with their nanoscopic pores and incredibly high surface areas, are excellent materials for natural gas storage.

Each stove cost around VND 2-3 million depending on the capacity of waste containers. Tuan explained that he had cherished the idea to make the stove since he was a boy.

Thus, the rate of power loss has reduced over the years. In 1997, power loss of medium voltage grid of the whole company was 10.35%, was 4.24% in 2010 and decreased to 3.66% in the first 6 months of 2011. Calculating by the current electric prices, with 1% of power loss reduced, Bac Ninh Power Company saves VND 10.5 billion for the State.

Attending the conference were energy experts, energy managers, electric equipment manufacturers and more than 100 enterprises in the province of Dong Nai.

Businesses in Luong Son Industrial Zone (Hoa Binh) usually organize production at off-peak hours to save energy and reduce production costs.

Dinh Vu Steel JSC (Dinh Vu Economic Zone - Dong Hai Ward - Hai An District – Hai Phong) is the first commercial steel embryo manufacturing enterprise in the North. With the capacity of 200,000 tons per year, electricity consumed in the production process of the plant is very large.

People-founded Van Lang University base 2 (Ho Chinh Minh City) has an area of nearly 5,000m2 with 400 teachers who train 11,000 students per year. With that scale, each month, the school consumes an average of 38,000 kWh of electricity.

In recent times, many enterprises in Quang Ngai have effortfully improved equipment and technologies to improve product quality and save energy, especially electricity.

Average prices paid in Sri Lanka to renewable energy firms in wind energy, mini-hydro and biomass are among the highest in the world, an analysis by an industry expert has shown.

The general chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy has suggested that the Government have policies that reward producers of electricity from wind and other natural resources, and encourage making the most of resources available in the country.

The Export-Import Bank of the US has agreed on a credit package worth US$1 billion for a wind power development programme in the Mekong River Delta between 2011 and 2015.

Work began yesterday on building a dam across the Song Bac River for a hydropower plant in northern Ha Giang Province's Quang Binh District.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) started construction of the VND33 trillion Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Plant in the northern province of Quang Ninh on October 22.

Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) on Tuesday signed a credit agreement worth US$1 billion with Export-Import Bank of the U.S. to fund a major wind power development plan in the Mekong Delta in 2011-2015, said Nguyen Viet Cuong, general director of VDB’s Transaction Office 2.

Vietnamese enterprises support the Government’s move to invest in renewable and alternative energy and they accept high energy costs in the short-term to lessen the nation’s dependence on mineral oil and its aim to have a long-term stable price.