Norsepower Oy and Bore say the sea trial of Norsepower’s Rotor Sail — a new wind propulsion technology for ships — verified by NAPA and supported by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, confirm fuel savings of 2.6 percent using a single small Rotor Sail on a route in the North Sea.

The township has started the process of replacing more than 850 streetlights with LED technology, a move that will save the municipality about $65,000 a year.

Xylem, a leading global water technology provider, has launched a next-generation, global range of highly-efficient in-line and end-suction pumps, which is claimed to reduce energy costs while improving performance

Australian-made technology that will allow householders to remotely monitor and control their electricity usage – and utilities to coordinate demand management programs – is being trialled in Perth and regional Queensland.

Local manufacturers who pay the lowest power tariffs in East African Community (EAC) region will further improve their competitiveness if they adopt efficient energy technology.

The next generation Toyota Prius engine achieves 40% thermal efficiency, says a report in Nikkei Technology. Toyota made the announcement at last week’s Spring Conference of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Yokohama, Japan.

On May 24, 2015, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology, HCM City Youth Union held a creative contest in model assembling with the theme "Energy saving".

Asahi Glass Co., Japan has brought to the Trade Fair Entech Hanoi 2015 a technology of energy saving glass which can potentially save over 30% of energy.

AJapanese technology firm Ricoh is looking at its new "energy-generating rubber" as one solution. According the company, the new piezoelectric polymer converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency, yet is extremely flexible and durable.

A laser land leveller - a machine equipped with a laser-operated drag bucket - is much more effective and quicker at ensuring a flat, even surface.

The Spanish Kurata Systems business group, led by the Torres family, has launched a new industrial plant in Barajas de Melo (Cuenca), which converts waste from refinery, industrial oil and plastic into fuel oil through a process of treatment, gasification and molecular transformation.

Belarus is ready to implement complex energy-saving solutions, BelTA learned from Andrei Minenkov, Head of the Research and Technology Policy and Foreign Economic Ties Office of the Energy Effectiveness Department of the State Standardization Committee of Belarus.

According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Russian Federation committed to provide Vietnam a preferential credit of $10 billion for Ninh Thuan 1 NPP project. and its related preparation.

According to the study, pulsed electric fields, an emerging technology in the food industry that has been shown to effectively kill multiple food-born microorganisms, could provide an alternative, non-thermal pasteurization process.

The social housing sector has been at the forefront of the adoption of different types of energy efficiency technologies and water-saving features as it has generally been building new homes to higher levels of the Code for Sustainable homes.

The self-regulating tire system that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has developed with funding from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) uses a new technology—called Air Maintenance Technology (AMT)—that works similar to the way muscles push food through the human digestive tract.

“The Comcast Innovation & Technology Center is a prime example of the integrated, sustainable urban environments that Schindler is so proud to support,” said Greg Ergenbright, president, Schindler Elevator Corporation.

The Department of Science and Technology of HCM City recently held a workshop on "Solutions to Urban Waste Disposal - Research into Technology and Feasibility" to assess the situation and propose feasible solutions and technologies for making use of a huge energy from waste and urban waste disposal.

ClearSign reports the superior environmental performance of Duplex Technology has been validated at an increased firing rate of 52 Million Btu/hr, while also showing a thermal efficiency improvement of the order of 1% when compared to a baseline case with a conventional low NOx burner without Flue Gas Recirculation (FGR).

NASA was conducting the Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology (LEAPTech) project — an initiative which may herald in a new age of aviation where aircraft are powered through electric motors.