Some young fellows stare at a big TV screen and shout noisily as they are watching a World Cup 2010 football match. Some electric fans run at their maximal speed to soothe the ongoing summer heat. The pigsty system behind the house of Tran Van Tam in Phu Trung hamlet, An Phu commune, Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City also gets cooled with home-made ventilation panels. It is unlikely that the area does not benefit from the national power grid and often incurs power outages.

Fourteen years ago, the Hanoi Towers at 49 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi had Air Handling Units (AHUs) installed for the 13-storey tower consisting of office and shopping space, and Inverter Multi Systems installed for the 25-storey apartment tower. At that time, AHUs and Inverter Multi Systems were modern technologies.

Một công viên điện gió lớn nhất châu Phi trị giá 250 triệu euro đã được vua Morocco Mohammed VI khánh thành tại thành phố Melloussa. Công viên này có công suất 140 megawatt và bao gồm 165 máy phát điện bằng sức gió. Nó được xây dựng bằng nguồn vốn tài trợ của Ngân hàng đầu tư châu Âu (80 triêu euro) và các ngân hàng như Intituto Credito Official của Tây Ban Nha (100 triệu euro), Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (50 triệu euro) và Cơ quan quốc gia về nước của Morocco (20 triệu euro).

A fresh-water wind farm is taking shape at Lake Erie and when completed will provide 20 megawatts and get on to about one gigawatt power by 2020. Huge individual turbines 300 feet tall, to be built by GE will be erected off Ohio, Cleveland. Better designs: These are special gearless super-efficient turbines, with three 176-foot long blades, which run with the help of a giant ring of magnets. The blades are longer due to strategically placed carbon fibre, and lighter too. Many moving parts like gearbox, coils and starter brushes are eliminated with resultant reduced maintenance. The giant magnetic ring array helps the turbine generate power even at very low speed.

In Quang Ninh, in May, the average allocated capacity is just 4.4 – 4.5 million kWh per day (not including capacity for cement factories), while the demand is up to 5.5 – 6 million kWh per day. “That businesses take the initiative to invest in energy-saving systems is primarily for their own economic purpose. Moreover, they have contributed much to the society and shared the difficulties with the community. If each hotel, each factory can save a few thousands of kWh, hundreds of families will have electricity to use”, said Mr. Do.

"Also we need to have some kind of social mechanism to watch whether the nuclear community is doing the correct thing or not... mass media for instance," Suzuki said on the sidelines of an international conference on technology and safety in nuclear power plants.

Really amazing are the innovative ways solar power is put into use. Now a team of scientists working in Sandia National Laboratories is focusing on exploring basic steps to make synthetic liquid fuel with the help of solar panels. The goal is that this will help considerably reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

On the morning of June 15, 2010, in coordination with the Energy Conservation Office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Infrastructure Department and the Urban Development Department of the Ministry of Construction, and the Vietnam Energy Efficient Public Lighting (VEEPL) project, the Vietnam Urban Lighting Association and the Anh sang & Cuoc song (Light & Life) magazine organized a workshop to discuss the role of the media in ensuring efficient use of energy for lighting purposes.

Nuclear power technology is developing and Vietnam must be updated continuously with new technology, especially in the field of waste treatment and material reuse, said Brett Jacobs, the Southeast Asia Programs Manager under the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s Directorate of Global Energy Dialogue, at a meeting with Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Huu Hao.

The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Office, the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Center will join hands with the Hanoi Women’s Union to host diverse training courses on energy efficiency and conservation for families living in the city’s 10 inner districts from June 23 to July 27, 2010, said the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade’s leadership in a press meeting on June 16, 2010.

Công ty Công nghệ Môi trường Sạch của Australia (ECT) và Công ty cổ phần Đầu tư và Thương mại Thăng Long (TinCom) của Việt Nam đã ký kết hợp đồng thương mại và đầu tư trị giá hàng trăm triệu USD, theo đó xuất khẩu than nâu đã qua xử lý sang Việt Nam

Trong bốn năm tới NMEEE sẽ giúp Ấn Độ đạt mục tiêu giảm 98,55 triệu tấn khí thải/năm bằng cách khởi động thị trường đầu tiên về buôn bán hạn ngạch khí thải, trị giá 740 tỷ rupi (hơn 16 tỷ USD), để thúc đẩy sử dụng tiết kiệm và hiệu quả các nguồn năng lượng.

Asia needs to create new business/production models for green and clean development in combination with preservation of natural resources and protection of the environment. The need was addressed at seminars held on June 7, the second workday of the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2010 (WEF on East Asia 2010).

In H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, tiny organisms found in nature save the world from powerful high tech invaders that have overwhelmed mankind’s powerful high tech weapons, and in a classic case of life imitating art, there they go again.

The positive trend of sustainable development has made lighting firms realize their responsibility to create “green” values with research and development, in order to develop environment-friendly products, improving life quality of people.

Toyota giới thiệu 20 chiếc Prius sạc điện (plug-in) mẫu dưới dạng cho thuê trong tháng bảy tới tại Anh, trong nỗ lực phổ biến mẫu xe Prius điện ra thị trường trong vòng ba năm tới.

A solar-powered plane is getting ready to hit the skies once again - this time, at night. It will be the first ever manned night flight on a plane propelled exclusively by solar energy. Solar Impulse will lift off from an airfield in Switzerland, on a sunny day sometime at the end of June.

First Solar has contacted Ho Chi Minh City Hi-tech Park, Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park and Phong Phu Industrial Zone to build a factory on an area of 72 hectares. First Solar’s products include the first photovoltaic thin panel battery. However, due to requirement of large area, the High-tech Park will no longer be suitable, therefore, First Solar must find venue in two other locations.

Thượng viện Mỹ ngày 27/5 đã đề xuất ra luật mở rộng tín dụng thuế cho các công ty lắp đặt trạm nạp điện cũng như người mua xe điện. Luật này sẽ chỉ đạo Bộ Năng lượng tài trợ 800 triệu USD để hỗ trợ các trạm nạp nhằm đáp ứng 700 000 xe điện trong vòng sáu năm tới.

According to the Master plan for Vietnam building material development to 2020, demands for building materials in 2010, 2015, 2020 are correspondingly 25, 32, 42 billion brick equivalent units, in which, the proportions of non-baked material are 10%, 15 – 20% and 30 – 40%, respectively.