23 May 2015 Ha Noi – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Viet Nam’s Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh cut the ribon to inaugurate the official opening of Green One UN House (GOUNH) in Vietnam.

AJapanese technology firm Ricoh is looking at its new "energy-generating rubber" as one solution. According the company, the new piezoelectric polymer converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency, yet is extremely flexible and durable.

Eidesvik is retrofitting its offshore support vessel (OSV) Viking Queen with a 650 kWh, 1600 kW energy storage system. The Viking Queen is the first OSV to get such a system installed as a retrofit solution.

The Spanish Kurata Systems business group, led by the Torres family, has launched a new industrial plant in Barajas de Melo (Cuenca), which converts waste from refinery, industrial oil and plastic into fuel oil through a process of treatment, gasification and molecular transformation.

Four Japanese companies have developed a cogeneration system that recovers hot wastewater with high efficiency from a gas engine in the form of steam, announced the companies on Thursday.

In the beginning of May, 2015, the Hanoi Energy Conservation Centre in collaboration with the Industrial Extension & Development Consulting and Energy Conservation Center held a training course on "Capacity Improvement for Energy Saving Policy Enactment for provincial and district officials in Lao Cai Province".

Besides the operation and management of equipment, the replication of power saving and efficiency model throughout the Southern provinces has contributed to improving the efficiency in ensuring reliable supplies during the dry season.

The PBCF is an energy-saving device attached to the propeller of a vessel. It breaks up the hub vortex generated behind the rotating propeller, resulting in a decrease of more than 9,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year because of a 3-5% reduction in fuel consumption.

The federal government has opened a new data centre it says will save taxpayers millions in operating costs and provide stability for numerous government departments.

Belarus is ready to implement complex energy-saving solutions, BelTA learned from Andrei Minenkov, Head of the Research and Technology Policy and Foreign Economic Ties Office of the Energy Effectiveness Department of the State Standardization Committee of Belarus.

Since 2012, the General Department of Energy - Ministry of Industry and Trade has been controlling the assignment conducted by the Poli-techniques Solar Energy Investment and Development Company Ltd. in coordination with Ha Giang Power Company to implement 3 projects with a total number of 149 benefited households.

In the first 4 months of 2015, EVN-SPC saved over 390 million kWh equivalent to 2.56% of commercial electricity. Meanwhile, EVN-HCMC saves 150.28 million kWh, accounting for 2.51% of electricity consumption.

According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Russian Federation committed to provide Vietnam a preferential credit of $10 billion for Ninh Thuan 1 NPP project. and its related preparation.

In order to contribute to socio-economic development, to stabilize the livelihood of the affected people in the areas of nuclear power plant construction, the Government and relevant agencies are working to expeditiously complete to enact mechanisms in support to socio-economic infrastructure construction in Ninh Thuan.

Hội Thông tin KHCN Việt Nam và Công ty cổ phần Fujidenki vừa phối hợp lắp đặt thử nghiệm hệ thống thiết bị công nghệ Nhật Bản tách khí hydro từ nước, dùng gắn kèm với động cơ dùng nhiên liệu hóa thạch để tiết kiệm nhiên liệu, xử lý khí thải, giảm thiểu ô nhiễm môi trường cho 1 xe buýt của Xí nghiệp xe buýt Quy Nhơn và tàu cá BĐ 91045.

According to the study, pulsed electric fields, an emerging technology in the food industry that has been shown to effectively kill multiple food-born microorganisms, could provide an alternative, non-thermal pasteurization process.

Grain farm operating expenses have increased steadily over the past decade, with the high costs of inputs, especially electricity, becoming one of the most serious challenges facing farmers.

The social housing sector has been at the forefront of the adoption of different types of energy efficiency technologies and water-saving features as it has generally been building new homes to higher levels of the Code for Sustainable homes.

Hãng sản xuất xe ô tô Audi đang nghiên cứu và tạo ra một loại nhiên liệu mới dùng cho xe động cơ đốt trong, đó là tổng hợp loại nhiên liệu này từ nước và carbon dioxide (CO2) có sẵn trong không khí.

Hội nghị thượng đỉnh về Doanh nghiệp và Khí hậu có chủ đề “Cùng hành động để xây dựng một nền kinh tế tốt hơn” đã khai mạc chiều 20/5 tại Paris với sự có mặt của Tổng thống Pháp François Hollande cùng lãnh đạo nhiều nước và nhiều tổ chức quốc tế. Hơn 1.000 đại biểu đại diện cho các chính phủ, lãnh đạo các doanh nghiệp, các tập đoàn quốc tế đã tham dự hội nghị.