Scotland should set an ambitious new target of generating 50% of its electricity, heat and transport demand from renewables by 2030.

An investment worth $27 million (£18.3m) will be made to boost access to electricity and renewable energy sources in Liberia.

The French are known for their cheese, and now they’re putting it to work. In Albertville, a small city on the border of France and Italy, their electricity is, in part, supplied by cheese.

Can Tho Power Company will innovate the forms, methods of communication on power savings in schools to raise the awareness of the students in the use of electricity with saving and safety.

Around 11% of the UK’s electricity needs was provided by wind farms in 2015.

For enactment of Directive 04/2012/CT-UBND dated 9-12-2015 issued by the Provincial People's Committee (PPC) on strengthening the power savings in the province, the Provincial Department of Industry and Trade of Long An has implemented the programs, electricity-saving measures, and advised the PPC to promulgate guidance on the mandatory power savings to all levels, departments, units, offices and people, while enhancing the inspection, monitoring of implementation of energy conservation.

To improve the economical and efficient use of energy in the business community, the electricity sector and other relevant departments of Can Tho City implemented many operations with dissemination of solutions, patterns of economical and efficient use of energy. It is meant to help businesses choose the solution and application models for optimization of energy efficiency, consistent with the size and condition of each enterprise.

Phu Hoa Ward, Thu Dau Mot City cooperated with Thu Dau Mot Electricity Corporation to run the programme “Streets of power-saving culture”, responding to power-saving programme and contributing to ensuring power sources for daily activities and production.

According to the Hanoi Energy Conservation Center, the movement of Electricity Saving Households has been deployed since 2011. To date, over 5 year duration (2011-2015), the movement has saved 1.32 billion kWh, equivalent to VND2,155 billion. Particularly, in 2015, the whole city conserved over 35 million kWh.

An Giang Provincial People's Committee has approved the project on management and efficient use of rice biomass for energy generation with a total budget VND 4.310 billion in the context of climate change in An Giang province by 2030.

With a series of power-saving programs under on-going implementation, the results are achieved in the reduced power loss, continuously lower than the planned targets, from 9.23% in 2011 to 8% in 2015. In 2015, the country saved more than 2,900 billion kWh, accounting for 2.34% percentage of commercial electricity.

On December 3, in Phu Tho, the Electricity of Vietnam - Northern Power Corporation (EVNNPC) organized "Review Ceremony on Emulation Program of Power Saving Families in Phu Tho Province in 2015". This is the first prominent event in the series of pro-customer activities deployed by EVNNPC during the month of "Gratitude to customers - December 2015" which had been launched by Electricity of Vietnam.

December 4, 2015 the Bac Ninh Power Company (Bac Ninh PC) in cooperation with the Tu Son town People's Committee celebrated the review on "Emulation in Power Saving Families of Tu Son town in 2015", to commend 170 prize winners of Power Saving Family title, in 2015

Electricity saving in 2014 is 17,491,760 kWh compared with the same period of previous year for the whole province, equivalent to VND 29.04 billion, accounting for 2.17% of commercial power production in the province.

Rocky Mountain Power honored Hill Air Force Base today as the 2015 wattsmart® Business Partner of the Year in Northern Utah for taking significant measures to save energy. The U.S Air Force base worked with the wattsmart Business program since 2013 and continues making improvements to conserve electricity.

Generating electricity from bagasse is a modern technology with efficiency, safety, and fossil energy savings.

Victoria’s Labor government has announced plans to expand the state’s energy reduction scheme – the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target (VEET) – as part of its effort to cut the state’s emissions and reduce electricity bills for households and business.

“You can be green and make green.”

Recently, SolarCity announced it will begin manufacturing the “world’s most efficient solar panels” at its factory in Buffalo, New York, starting in 2016. It claims it has designed a panel that converts 22.1% of sunlight into electricity.

Every year, the information technology sector spends almost $7 billion on electricity costs, and much of that money goes to cooling computer processing units (CPUs) in data centers. At the Energy Department’s Sandia National Laboratories, researchers have developed an innovative new air-cooling technology - the Sandia Cooler - that improves the way heat is transferred in computers and microelectronics, significantly reducing the energy needed to cool CPUs in data centers.