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.

Ms. Phan Cam Tu, representing the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Office (Ministry of Industry and Trade) and deputy director of Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade, Pham Trung Son and many reporters representing diverse media organizations in Hanoi attended the press meeting.

Addressing the meeting, deputy director Pham Trung Son said Vietnamese families are using 35-40 percent of national power consumption level. Each urban dweller spends an average VND6-8 million on energy per year. Therefore, promoting economical use of energy among local families is vital as it will diminish energy consumption and environmental pollution and benefit families themselves and the whole nation.

These training courses look at materializing instructions by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on establishing a national propagation program on energy efficiency and conservation and popularizing the program in local community. Earlier, Hanoi People’s Committee joined hands with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to experiment with a movement promoting economical use of energy among Hanoi families in 2010.

These training courses will take place in the city’s 10 inner districts. If the model goes successful, it will be multiple in many other areas. This year the movement targets 100,000 Hanoi families in which 200 families will be selected to join the aforementioned training courses.

Deputy director of the Hanoi Energy Efficiency and Conservation Center, Ngo Minh An said with the training courses the energy movement’s Organizing Committee hopes around 30 percent of the 100,000 families will win the awards ‘energy efficient families’ and ‘exemplary energy efficient families’.

Training Hanoi families in energy efficiency and conservation is to raise people’s awareness about the need for economical use of energy, contributed to ensuring energy security and protecting the environment. Through the movement the Organizing Committee seeks to forward the message ‘Economical use of energy by families today means you are saving for today and future generations’.

By Tran Lieu