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.

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.

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.

After the campaign for electricity and energy saving programs in 2012 recently launched in Hanoi, about 100,000 typical households have adopted energy and money saving measures.

The Hanoi Hotel, located near to the city's Giang Vo Lake, has won accolades for it's energy saving construction.

Công ty năng lượng Nuru (Nuru Energy) ở Rwanda đã nghiên cứu và phát triển một loại máy phát điện bằng bàn đạp tên là Powercycle, hứa hẹn mang lại nhiều lợi ích cho các vùng nông thôn ở xa lưới điện.

On 12 October, 2012, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade signed the Decision number 6061/QD-BCT on the designation of a laboratory which will be employed to test energy output for equipment engaging in the Energy labeling program.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee recently approved the Green Energy Program for the 2011-2015 period, which emphasized the goal of clean power development, with new renewable energies accounting for more than one percent of the whole city's power consumption, equivalent to 48MW. However, to make this a reality will not be easy.

Vietnam won an Energy Globe Award 2012 from experts representing the United Nations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), World Bank (WB), European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and Seibersdorf Research Center, for its project on hybrid power system to supply power for Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands and the DK1 marine defense platform in the East Sea.

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

With a goal to achieve 40% cut in carbon emissions by 2020, the Malaysian government plans to increase the share of renewable energy in the total energy mix to 5.5% by 2015, according to a statement made by the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

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.

An international expo on energy-saving and green energy technologies and products, Enertec Expo 2012, opened at the Tan Binh Exhibition & Convention Centre (TBECC) in HCM City on August 15.

Scientists from Vietnam’s Academy for Water Resources have succeeded in designing equipment that turns saltwater into freshwater, using the sun’s energy.

According to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, an energy storage system that cools air until it becomes liquid could compete with batteries.

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.

Finland may phase out the use of coal in energy production by 2025, its Economy Minister has said.

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.