With responsibilities to maintain almost 2,000 miles of flood defences, main rivers and more than 4,000 sluices, outfalls, floodgates and barriers, Natural Resources Wales has a great deal of involvement in the waterways of Wales.

Currently, the energy consumption of households in Huong Hoa accounts for 50% of total electricity consumption in the district. Therefore, helping people to raise awareness of saving electricity, especially in the difficult areas is the main thrust of the district electricity board.

The Middle East can take a giant step towards energy efficiency by switching to air conditioning systems with compressor modulation, reducing energy consumption by up to 40 per cent, according to experts.

The automotive industry dreams of the utopian “green factory”, with lower energy consumption and subsequently reduced energy costs.

Albania’s residential sector uses more than half the country’s electricity supply, representing a huge opportunity to reduce energy consumption and address energy deficits.

The British dairy industry has made significant progress in reducing energy consumption in dairy production through energy saving measures.

ASEAN member states have committed themselves to work together to switch to efficient lighting standards and policies, a move that will significantly reduce energy consumption in the region.

To combat this the HRS system uses waste heat from the plant’s CHP engine via the engine’s cooling water and also recycles the heat (through heat exchanger tubes) used during the pasteurisation process to reduce energy consumption by up to 70%.

At Chinaplas 2015 in Guangzhou, German manufacturer Brückner Maschinenbau will mainly focus on two areas of a modern plastics film production: reduced energy consumption and raw material usage as well the manufacture of special functional plastic films.

Reducing energy intensity is an urgent task, identified in the strategy of socio-economic development of the country. However, with the current energy consumption, the issue of energy intensity reduction is still troublesome.

During April 4-21, 2015 the Department of Industry and Trade in collaboration with EVN Hanoi examines the use of energy in 92 key enterprises in 12 districts of Hanoi to assess the level of energy consumption and the observance of the Law on Economical and Efficient Use of Energy.

Small and medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam account for 40% of total energy consumption in the industrial sector. The potentiality for energy efficiency is large, but local policies to promote savings for the sectors of brick, ceramics and food processing are not really showing the effects.

This study may help reduce energy consumption in smart phones, tablets and laptops by ten times, which could lead to a similar reduction in charging frequency of the batteries suitable for those devices.

Urban rail systems in Europe have already achieved a target to reduce their energy consumption by 10 per cent by 2020.

Light bulb technology has advanced leaps and bounds in the last decade. Now, University of Toronto students are taking their highly efficient light bulb to the next level to reduce energy consumption

BMW Motoren GmbH implemented Tecnomatix Plant Simulation software to reduce lifecycle energy consumption of car engines and the results were a savings of 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.

A new research project aims to reduce the energy consumption of container ships by 10-20 percent. This will result in considerable environmental and economic benefits.

In Canada, the Green Mining Initiative successfully installed an automated mine ventilation system in an underground mine in greater Sudbury, Ontario. This resulted to a reduction of up to 40 percent of the energy consumption, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and cost savings amounting up to $4 million annually.

Inertech is delivering innovative energy solutions for data centers, which use a free cooling cycle and make it possible to cut cooling energy consumption by up to 90% and water usage by up to 80%, depending on local conditions.

A new centralized SON (self-organizing network) solution, Nokia iSON Manager provides an energy-saving function to minimize energy consumption of LTE networks. In a pilot project, Nokia iSON Manager helped Korea Telecom save 40 % on its consumption by shutting down particular frequencies when they weren’t needed.