To ensure energy security for sustainable development and build green, environmentally friendly industries, as well as to reduce the production cost and enhance the competitiveness of businesses to build a green economy, Vietnam is promoting renewable energy development, energy efficiency and conservation.

To improve rural living standards and to popularize biogas energy among people, especially women, at the same time implementing the programme for energy efficiency and waste treatment, Ninh Binh Women Federation has initiated the project “Households using biogas to save energy” in the whole province.

In response to the National Energy Efficiency Program, Vinh Phuc Province aims to save at least 10 percent of their current annual electricity consumption.

The EU Commissioner for industry has told businesses that environmental policies will be central to driving the "third industrial revolution", ahead of a the launch of a growth strategy next month.

mplementing national target program on energy efficiency and conservation in 2012 approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, on 21 September 2012, Danang Department of Industry and Trade in collaboration with Energy Efficiency Office, Ministry of Industry and Trade organized a conference on energy efficiency.

Ministry of Trade and Industry, together with Vietnam Journalists Association and EVN, shall hold the 2012 National Press Competition on awareness raising for energy efficiency and conservation.

Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM have patented gypsum boards able to store thermal energy that can reduce up to 40% of energy consumption of a building.

Attending the conference were energy experts, energy managers, electric equipment manufacturers and more than 100 enterprises in the province of Dong Nai.

Businesses in Luong Son Industrial Zone (Hoa Binh) usually organize production at off-peak hours to save energy and reduce production costs.

As forecasted by EVN, under the basic plan, load demand in the last six months of the year will reach 56.949 billion kWh, 8.23% higher than the same period of 2010. Water flow of hydropower reservoirs in the last four months of the year shall reach the frequency of 65%; hydropower reservoirs shall reach the normal water levels at the end of the year.

According to the Provincial Center of Industrial Promotion, the Energy saving program in 2011 is subsidized by the central budget (under the National Program on Energy Efficiency and Conservation with the total budget of VND 250 million) and VND 120 million by the local budget.

With such effort, the company's products are always accepted by the market and it is gaining more and more customers. The company's products have been exported to many countries around the world including many difficult markets like the UK, France, Netherlands and Canada.

With support from the National Program on Energy Efficiency and Conservation and the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), Viettronics Thuduc Limited Company (VTD), member unit of Vietnam Electronics and Informatics Corporation (VEIC), has developed and put into trial operation the first high-tech LED producing facility in Vietnam in Saigon hi-tech park.

During the dry season, to help power sector reduce power consumption during peak hours, some oil-powered generators have been used, especially during peak hours, to reduce the time of using the national grid. Specifically, 65% of devices have been separated from the grid and powered by generators.

Ban categorized three areas of energy in which significant inroads need to be made. The first is access to our modern services. Another is to double the world’s energy efficiency.

MANAGERS and supervisors from 50 industrial and service companies in Cebu attended the two-day national training workshop on energy efficiency and conservation at the Crown Regency Mactan.

EVNSPC has directed Power Companies to coordinate with the localities to propagate the Law on Energy Efficiency and Conservation; strictly implement requirements, directives, resolutions and instructions of the Government, Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Electricity of Vietnam on saving power.

The companies say they are supportive of the directive, which “will hopefully constitute an important step towards achieving the EU’s 20% energy savings target by 2020”.

Demand for energy in Vietnam tends to increase faster than the speed of economic development. Therefore, energy efficiency and conservation is very important for the development of the country's economy and businesses. Aware of this, Hanoi Kim Bai beer JSC has implemented energy saving, firstly energy audit, to identify opportunities to reduce energy costs.

Ministers have tried to address public lack of trust in energy companies by offering assurances about the “Green Deal” – a policy designed to improve the energy efficiency of homes. Under this plan, any householder will be able to spend up to £10,000 making their home more energy efficient, funded by the savings from future gas and electricity bills.