To serve the needs of development, production, trade and consumption, in the next 5 years, Hanoi will have to invest about VND 19,500 billion to upgrade and renovate the grid system. That is the content of the scheme “Electricity development planning of Hanoi in 2011 – 2015 period, regarding 2020" which has recently been approved by the City People’s Council.

Đào tạo là một trong những nội dung lớn, quan trọng trong Chương trình mục tiêu quốc gia về sử dụng năng lượng tiết kiệm và hiệu quả. Để hoạt động đào tạo mang lại hiệu quả cao, vừa qua, Bộ Công Thương đã phối hợp với Ngân hàng Phát triển Châu Á (ADB), Viện Bảo Tồn năng lượng quốc tế (IIEC) Châu Á phát hành tài liệu hướng dẫn sử dụng năng lượng tiết kiệm và hiệu quả cho các ngành công nghiệp Việt Nam.

The Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation (EVN HCMC) said that in the past five years, they launched many campaigns to promote efficient use of electricity. As a result, the families of all EVN HCMC staff members have been committed to saving 10 percent of power consumption at home. In response to the appeal of the Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Union, 100,000 households have been committed to saving power.

Some developed countries such as Japan consume only 350-400kWh of electricity to make every tonne of steel billets whereas Vietnam consumes as much as 700kWh of electricity to do that. So if it does not take actions to reduce energy consumption in order to lower the production cost, the Vietnamese steel sector can hardly withstand market competition.

It is nearly one years Phan Xuan Tai family in Tan Lap Village, Cam Thanh Bac Commune, Cam Lam District, Khanh Hoa Province have not been worried about electricity and fuel costs for daily life and raising 120 pigs because they have been using biogas for every daily activities. If there were not the project on biogas sponsored by the Dutch Government, they would have to pay at least VND200,000 for electricity and fuel costs.

Ngày 15/12/2010, Eurowindow phối hợp với hãng Technal (CH Pháp) và hãng sơn PPG (Mỹ) tổ chức hội thảo “Vách nhôm kính thế hệ mới – Giải pháp tiết kiệm năng lượng và thân thiện với môi trường cho các công trình cao tầng tại Việt Nam”

An act as simple as replacing a light bulb could lead to billions of dollars in electricity savings, a new assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme shows. It studied the advantage of switching from obsolete incandescent lamp technology to compact fluorescent lamps or C.F.L.’s.

A day after Energy Secretary Steven Chu's "Sputnik speech," in which he warned that China was investing billions in renewable energy while American politicians bickered over small-potatoes stimulus spending on green technology, a report from Ernst & Young released Tuesday confirmed Asia's ascendancy.

Adding 265 gigawatts of wind-sourced electricity into the European grids by 2020 is expected to save 41.7 billion euros in electricity costs annually. Market trends and limited infrastructure stand in the way of wind power growth in Europe, stopping the inflow of billions of euros in power savings, according to a new report by the European Wind Energy Association.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said a fund it established to develop large capacity solar projects will increase the renewable energy resource to 3GW by mid-2013 in the Asia and Pacific region. Haruhiko Kuroda, president of ADB, said governments in Asia and the Pacific should invest in solar energy to help ensure their growth is environmentally sustainable.

Hai doanh nghiệp đầu tiên đã được vay vốn nhằm đổi mới công nghệ, TKNL với số tiền lên tới 4 triệu USD trong khuôn khổ dự án tín dụng xanh, ký kết giữa Techcombank và Công ty Tài chính quốc tế (IFC). Dự án tín dụng xanh đã mở ra hướng đi mới cho các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ Việt Nam trước bài toán tìm nguồn vốn nhằm đổi mới công nghệ TKNL hướng đến SXSH, nhất là khi Luật Sử dụng năng lượng TK & HQ sắp có hiệu lực.

The future, according to MiaSolé, a Californian start-up, is unrolling at one centimetre a second in a bland-looking building in Silicon Valley. Despite the location, and the fact that most other solar cells are made from silicon, MiaSolé’s cells are not. Ribbons of steel a metre wide and half a hair’s width thick spool through vacuum chambers in which they are sputtered with copper, indium, gallium and selenium—collectively known as CIGS. Out of the end comes a new type of solar cell which promises to be both efficient and cheap.

While in general terms wind energy does not represent a threat to wildlife, poorly sited or designed wind farms can have a negative impact on vulnerable species and habitats That's why the European Commission has published today guidelines for wind energy development in protected natural areas. The guidelines apply to the Natura 2000 network, a cornerstone of EU biodiversity policy and a key tool to achieve the EU target of halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2020.

The report calls for a permitting process that's friendlier to offshore wind power, establishment of priority zones for offshore wind, more research on offshore wind technologies, and efforts to promote quality jobs, especially in manufacturing, that would result from that industry.

On the second day of his two-day state visit to Malaysia, President Lee Myung-bak held a one-on-one meeting with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak, on Friday. During the summit the two leaders reviewed and reflected on the 50 years of diplomatic ties and discussed measures to promote cooperation in a wide range of sectors including green technology, nuclear power generation and the joint exploration of markets in third countries.

Ngày 9/12, Ủy ban châu Âu (EC) đã công bố chiến lược của Liên minh châu Âu (EU) đối với khu vực sông Danube với mục tiêu khai thác tiềm năng kinh tế to lớn và cải thiện điều kiện môi trường của khu vực có 115 triệu dân sinh sống này.

Tập đoàn lọc hóa dầu lớn nhất châu Á China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) của Trung Quốc vừa nhất trí mua lại chi nhánh dầu khí tại Argentina của đối tác Mỹ Occidental Petroleum, với giá 2,45 tỷ USD. Thương vụ này là bằng chứng mới nhất cho thấy “cơn khát” những tài sản trong lĩnh vực năng lượng của nền kinh tế tăng trưởng mạnh nhất thế giới còn chưa được giải tỏa.

On November 19th, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, with the assistance of German Government through the Organization of German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the German Energy Agency, put into use the grid connected solar system on the rooftop of the headquarters. The system will save approximately VND 12 million per year for electricity. Using electricity from renewable energy sources is considered the radical solution for the increasing energy demand in Vietnam.

Reducing energy consumption through more efficient buildings, power plants and vehicles is still the most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but projects are often hampered by unclear policies from governments, said speakers at a business forum on the sidelines of the U.N. climate conference.

Turkish Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz, welcomed the recent progress in Turkey’s first nuclear power plant project that will be built by Russia and underscored Ankara’s determination to develop nuclear energy through foreign partnerships. Yildiz told reporters that Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, signed the inter-governmental agreement, which was recently ratified by both houses of the Russian parliament.