A Green Economy conference on September 16 promoted the need to develop renewable energy sources in Vietnam, with participants from business and academia sharing experience and technological applications.

On October 17, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new five year programmes to help Vietnam address the impacts of climate change.

Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud, one of Saudi Arabia’s top spokesmen, has confirmed that Saudi Arabia has plans to generate 100% of its power from renewable sources, and low carbon forms of energy.

Tại buổi làm việc mới đây với lãnh đạo tỉnh Quảng Ngãi, đoàn công tác của Tập đoàn SembCorp Utilites Pte Ltd. (Singapore) khẳng định sẽ bỏ ra 2 tỉ USD xây dựng Nhà máy nhiệt điện Dung Quất ở xã Bình Đông, huyện Bình Sơn với hai tổ máy có tổng công suất 1.200 MW.

Environmental experts have called on Viet Nam to make further efforts in providing economic incentives and better policies to promote "greener" buildings in the face of resource depletion and rapid urbanization.

Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) Energy Saving Office consultant Nguyen Kinh Luan said that the application of energy management systems would help enterprises reduce energy costs, protect the environment and secure national energy security when addressing a workshop on the ISO 50001 Energy Management System.

A man parks his electric powered car at a charging station in Sofia. Bulgaria's car-packed capital has recently set a EU example in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions by installing its first state-of-the-art solar power charger for electric cars, officials said.

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.

As an agricultural country, Vietnam has great potential of biomass energy. Especially with vast rice fields, the Mekong Delta has abundant resources of rice husk and straw that can be used as types of biomass fuel.

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.

Ở Karratha, Tây Australia, ánh nắng Mặt trời và nước là những điều kiện lý tưởng để trồng tảo.

Cơ quan Phát triển Quốc tế Mỹ (USAID) hôm 17/10 đã công bố các chương trình kéo dài 5 năm về năng lượng sạch, thích ứng và cảnh quan bền vững nhằm giúp Việt Nam ứng phó với các tác động của biến đổi khí hậu và sử dụng đất.

A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight.

Like other EVSE-RS chargers, a green light comes on when the charger is ready for use, and it shuts itself off when it’s done charging. It also has plenty of safety features built in or included.

Dak Lak Province holds huge potential for renewable energy development. It targets to make renewable energy account for 25 percent of all energy used in the province in 2015.

After three months of the pilot project on using energy efficiently, Ben Tre Centre for Industry Promotion and Development Consultancy has so far received application forms from 35 households who wish to take part in this program.

"More multinational companies including from US and Taiwan have also come to Malaysia to invest in this area," he told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of Petronas' First Solar PV Installation here today.

Under the guidance of the Northern Power Corporation in the official letter no. 3281/EVNNPC-KDDN dated 07 September 2012 on the development of “power saving family” movement in the Power Companies, Dien Bien Power Company launched “Power saving family 2012” movement, the households commit to save at least 10% of power use and get power use results of October 2012 as a landmark for comparing to November and December 2012.

To implement promote agricultural development via the application of high technology innovations, many private companies, state businesses as well as foreign companies in recent years have invested in plant multiplication and growth in agricultural production using lighting technology.

The supercapacitor, once used to power robots and as a backup power source for computer memory, is now being hailed as such an energy source that could be the key to greener public transportation.