An EU-funded project on access to renewable and efficient energy in the municipalities of Vayk and Spitak in Armeniahas started work, aiming to support the municipalities to develop and test replicable models to save energy through the use of efficient measures and renewable sources in residential and public buildings.

Storage of energy from renewable energy sources is vital to Europe’s energy policy. DTU Energy and partners use atomic modelling to develop a rechargeable zinc-air battery that is able to store large amounts of energy.

In response to the National Target Program on Economical and Efficient Use of Energy, for the past 5 years (2010 - 2014), through the Power Saving Movement, Energy Saving in households, Hanoi has more 132 million kWh of electricity saved, equivalent to more than VND160 billion. Communication is evaluated as an important contribution to this outcome.

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.

A laser land leveller - a machine equipped with a laser-operated drag bucket - is much more effective and quicker at ensuring a flat, even surface.

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".

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.

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.

The Newspaper Career Journal - Ho Chi Minh City Journalist Association and the city Power Corporation held the evaluation review and awarding for Cartoonists who participated in the Cartoon Contest on Electricity Saving 2015.

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.

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.

The self-regulating tire system that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has developed with funding from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) uses a new technology—called Air Maintenance Technology (AMT)—that works similar to the way muscles push food through the human digestive tract.

Thailand's Eleventh National Economic and Social Development Plan for 2012-2016, has targeted improvements in natural resource and environmental quality through the development of energy security policies.

“The Comcast Innovation & Technology Center is a prime example of the integrated, sustainable urban environments that Schindler is so proud to support,” said Greg Ergenbright, president, Schindler Elevator Corporation.

In support of White House's ambitious performance goals, GSA’s Green Proving Ground (GPG) program recently published the results of three evaluations of technologies with the potential to cost-effectively reduce the energy and water use of our federal buildings.

Because it is extremely expensive to run the heat, lights and refrigerators around the clock, convenience stores throughout Japan have developed innovative ways to save money and energy.

Siemens' blade factory in Fort Madison, Iowa, and Siemens aerodynamic engineering center in Boulder, Colorado, were heavily involved in the development of the SWT-2.3-120's aeroelastically tailored blades.