A national programme for doctors to prescribe energy efficient measures for fuel poor patients suffering from diseases as a result of cold homes has been unveiled.

Introduction of energy-saving stoves in the Moshi Municipal Council is making a difference in the lives of women in different households besides contributing to environmental conservation.

A conventional thermostat regulates house heating at one temperature. Setting the temperature lower can save energy when you are out of the house or sleeping, but you may find the temperature uncomfortable while you wait for the house to heat up again.

Kingston General Hospital in Ontario spent $10 million and five years upgrading the hospital’s energy systems and the project is already saving large amounts of energy. Projects combined have netted them over $800,000 in energy and water savings and reduced our carbon footprint by over 14 percent

The Delimara Power Station is currently using heavy fuel oil and running on eight Wärtsilä 46 engines. The project includes the conversion of four of the current engines into Wärtsilä 50SG and four into Wärtsilä 50DF engines.

LEDs use a semiconductor as its light source and are currently one of the most efficient lighting systems.

Many Indian states and municipalities have announced plans of replacing less energy-efficient lighting with LEDs. Recently, Indian capital New Delhi has announced a pilot project to replace 500,000 streetlights with LED lights.

On February 5th, 2014, a meeting of the Project Steering Committee of Low Carbon Transition in Energy Efficiency Project (LCEE) in the field of energy saving in Vietnam took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

IFC and OPIC, with the additional support of the Government of Canada, will help BMR Jamaica Wind Ltd to build, operate and maintain a 36.3 MW wind farm which will be the largest renewable energy project developed by the private sector in Jamaica.

Vestas has received an order for 365 V52-850 kW turbines for the 310 MW Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya. The order is the largest in Vestas’ history in terms of number of wind turbines in a single project.

Solar power almost doubled in the last year, with 650,000 installations ranging from solar farms to panels on homes, figures showed.

With demand response, grid operators use technologies to reduce the peak demand, thereby avoiding the need to build or maintain these expensive power plants.

The group that received the health and environmental information reduced consumption by 8 percent compared to the control.

A Vietnamese delegation was in Denmark to learn about how the legal and regulatory framework is designed to promote energy efficiency in Danish industries.

South Africa has a goal of having 18 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030, so projects like this are definitely steps in the right direction. If there's one thing that South Africa has lots of, it's sunlight! 45% of the total project value was spent on "local content" to help increase the positive economic impact on the area.

His remarks came at the time when his government is planning to target up to 100,000 MW of solar generation by 2022, far more than an existing 20,000 MW target by 2020.

A new experimental “smart town” based especially around the technologies of solar energy and battery storage is being developed in Japan by Panasonic Corporation (along with other public and private partners), based on recent reports.

British Gas has been fined £11.1m by the regulator Ofgem over its failure to deliver energy efficiency measures on time.

The Victorian Labor Party has sought to underline its renewable energy credentials by vowing to help the town of Newstead, near Bendigo, to become 100 per cent renewable energy by 2017, and become the state’s first “solar town”.

With the number of Internet connected devices rapidly increasing, researchers from Melbourne are starting a new research program to reduce energy consumption of such devices.

The new energy efficiency standard’s positive environmental impact includes 3.63 quadrillion BTU’s of energy saved during the above mentioned period, that translates in avoiding 265 million metric tons of CO2 emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of about 52 million automobiles.

Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (VINACOMIN) is using technological and technical solutions, intensifying management in order to minimize coal loss.

At a meeting with the national steering committee for atomic energy workforce training, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam asked ministries and sectors to clarify the atomic energy industry’s workforce demand and train a labor force not only for nuclear power plants but also research and training facilities and other organizations of ministries and sectors.

Harrow Council are taking part in the London wide scheme-Big Energy Switch which promises to help reduce your bills up to £200. Anyone who pays a household energy bill can take part, this includes tenants and customers on pre payment meters.

Germany is the global leader in energy efficiency while ageing power plants and inefficient ways of electricity generation and industrial practices put India at number 11 in the latest energy efficiency ranking of the world's 16 largest economies.

1 July 2014 The Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE) held an "Energy Conservation in Housing Award" ceremony to urge real estate entrepreneurs to work harder at saving energy.