Vietnam and Germany have signed three cooperation agreements in defense, energy and vocational training during the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Over the years, Vietnam has shown a strong determination in exploiting and using renewable energy with a long-term vision of a sustainable energy transition.

Germany’s Großmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH (GICON®) and the Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) have identified cooperation sectors and forms, covering technologies, under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on March 29.

German solar and wind parks operator Capital Stage AG (ETR:CAP) today said it has acquired a 7.5-MW wind farm in Germany.

German solar and wind parks operator Chorus Clean Energy AG (FRA:CU1) said today it has acquired a 3.3-MW solar park in Germany for two German pension funds.

GE Ventures bought a stake in Germany’s Sonnen GmbH to boost its presence in the fast-growing market for energy storage systems built to store solar power.

Clean power is needed all over Germany and green electricity from the North Sea gives the German energy transition the necessary support.

A new self-driving robot, utilizing recycled BMW i3 electric vehicle batteries, is currently being tested at the company’s Innovation Park in Wackersdorf, Germany.

Germany has overtaken the UK in the rate at which it is installing wind turbines at sea.

German households and industry made great strides last year to use energy more efficiently, according to energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB).

On October 09, 2015, in Viglacera Corperation JSC, the signing ceremony of credit contract with Vietnam Development Bank – Transaction Office 1 and EP Contract of supply of technological equipment with the Contractor Von Ardenne GmbH (Federal Republic of Germany) to implement the project “Investment in production line of energy-saving glass with output of 2.3 million m2/year”.

In the afternoon of October 02, 2015, a Ceremony of Acceptance and Handover of equipment of Green Hospital Project among Vietnam – Germany Friendship Hospital, Mitsubishi Group and Ho Chi Minh City Energy Conservation Center was organized in Hanoi.

The Children Painting Contest on "power savings" theme initiated by Nghe An Power Company in coordination with Vietnam - Germany Children's Cultural House was launched in June 2015 for the preschool age group, primary school and upper primary school students.

The loan will be used to buy 82 new double-deck electric trains offering improved energy-efficiency and capacity, as well as special barrier-free passenger comfort for the RRX project.

Kazakhstan Vice-Minister for Investment and Development Albert Rau and the heads of the German Energy Agency Dena - board chairman Andreas Kuhlmann and director Ulrich Benterbusch, signed a memorandum of strategic partnership in energy conservation and energy efficiency in the first Kazakh-German Energy Forum , Kazpravda.kz correspondent reports.

The preferential loan will be used to finance projects on renewable energy and energy efficiency in Namibia through NamPower.

Energy efficiency opportunities abound, the research tells us.

In Germany and South Africa, researchers and industry are cooperating in a 'solar melting of aluminium in a directly radiated rotary kiln' (SOLAM ) project to develop a method by which aluminium foundries could use solar energy to melt the metal, states the German Aerospace Centre.

In Germany's capital, where recycling is an art form and organic markets are sprouting up everywhere, saving energy is becoming serious business. It's something city authorities want to encourage.

On June 12, 2015, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam General Department of Energy and GIZ's energy unit signed an agreement to support the Project on up-scaling the wind power in Vietnam.