Three eco-friendly pioneers are heading off on the journey of a lifetime - a 20,000km (12,427 mile) ride in a solar-powered tuk tuk from Bangkok to Toulouse, France.

While the cost of solar power has dropped significantly from the early 2000s, there is still plenty of room for the technology to become cheaper, making it even more attractive as a substitute for fossil fuels.

Power-saving communication has become a routine work of Phu Yen electricity company's employees. This activity has been implemented every year in a systematic manner with abundant contents.

The National Power Transmission Corporation has mobilised 70.65 trillion VND (3.36 billion USD), including 1.3 billion USD of official development assistance (ODA), in the past five years for its power projects.

Central Quang Binh province started work on a 13.7 million USD project in Bo Trach district on July 1 to supply solar power to far-flung areas outside the reach of the national grid.

Wind Power Plant Project in Khai Long Beach has a total budget of over VND 70,000 billion with 150 wind turbine poles and designed capacity of 300MW, built on an area of ​​over 7,000 ha.

There are 3,810 administrative agencies involved in the emulation program "Electricity savings in offices" and out of them 157 offices achieve the standard in power saving as compared to the previous month by 5% or more.

The use of solar hot water heater brings about many benefits, such as less power consumption, ensuring regular supply of hot water, producing no noise, low maintenance costs and high durability.

The world’s first solar powered catwalk – the J Summer Fashion Show 2015 – took place last Friday evening, July 17th, at the Gemasolar plant outside Sevilla in southern Spain.

On July 23, 2015, the Provincial Labor Federation and the Electricity Company of Quang Nam in collaboration with the Dien Ban town People's Committee held a celebration over a general review of the movement "Energy Saving Agencies and Enterprises" in Quang Nam province, and the Contest "Electricity Savings in Public Offices in 2015" in Dien Ban district of the province.

A graduate from West Virginia has designed a portable charger that can be powered by the ‘slightest of breezes’ and is designed to fold up and fit in a backpack.

With a view to use renewable energy source, world’s fourth largest railway network, Indian Railways has rolled out its solar energy powered coaches.

Starting September 1st, 2015, Circular No. 23/2015/TT-BCT prescribing the sequence and procedures for investment in thermal power project in the form of Build - Operate - Transfer (BOT) officially takes effect.

The MOSFETs can bring highestenergy efficiency to end-applications such as power and gardening tools, light electric vehicles, drones and e-bikes that demand a high level of energy efficiency but are restricted in available space.

To meet the demand for electricity supply, serving production, business and daily needs of the people, while it is necessary to ensure continuous power supplies, Ba Ria - Vung Tau provided guidelines to agencies, units and enterprises to enhance the power saving for the last 6 months of 2015 in the province.

Implementing the National Target Program on economical and efficient use of energy, Long An Power Company has been stepping up its public communication to electricity users in the program.

6.3 million kWh of electricity was achieved by Phu Yen Power Company as savings in the first 6 months of 2015, equivalent to approximately 2.09% of power consumption of the time, a decrease by 2.27% compared with the same period last year.

As continuous high temperatures and humidity drive up energy use, Mississippi Power is reminding customers that rebates and discounts are available focusing on ways to keep their homes cool and reduce the impact of the hot weather on power bills.

Duke Energy plans to upgrade its 36-megawatt energy storage and power management system at the utility’s Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas to better serve the local grid, the utility said in a June news release.

In the implementation of the National Target Program on economical and efficient use of energy during 2011-2015, Dong Nai Power Company had saved 667 million kWh of electricity by the end of 2014.