A working group from the Gazprom Neft Group (Russia) recently worked with the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) on investment cooperation in upgrading the Dung Quat Oil Refinery. Vietnam Economic News’ Kim Hoa spoke with Dinh Van Ngoc, General Director of the Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR) about the project.

The tolling of the evening bell signals the end of the day’s classes at Donyo Wasin primary school. For a few adept pupils like Sotik Leleno, however, it ushers in the time for their private studies under the glow of solar powered lighting.

From massive wind farms generating power to small turbines powering a single home, wind turbines around the globe generate clean electricity for a variety of power needs.

Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corp. said Thursday it signed an agreement to build three solar power plants near the country's western coast.

Inner Harbor Water Wheel can pick up 50,000 pounds of trash and debris every day, using solar power and water current to run.

In an attempt to further reduce the cost of electricity to consumers, St. Kitts and Nevis and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are collaborating in a plan that will see the distribution of over 5,000 energy-saving bulbs in the twin-island Federation.

Green technology meets high-powered computing at the new Stanford Research Computing Center, which supports the growing computational needs of researchers on campus while saving energy.

Solar power, however, is a free, renewable and abundant resource. Today solar energy is an inexpensive and innovative option for treating waste that is becoming more widespread and accepted.

Scientists, led by Professor Simon McQueen-Mason and Professor Neil Bruce at the University of York, have discovered a new enzyme that could prove an important step in the quest to turn waste, such as paper, scrap wood and straw, into liquid fuel.

There's an old camping trick, for people who don't want to bother getting a lantern: just stick a flashlight up against the bottom of a plastic pop bottle, turn the flashlight on, then bask in the bottle's glow.

Andrew Greenfield checks his home’s solar power output against consumption through his computer and mobile phone dozens of times each day.

A 9.5-MW power station that will be fired using coconut waste is to be developed in Thailand.

Last month the European Ocean Energy Association hosted its first conference outside Brussels at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. It was a great event.

In their continuing efforts to increase the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, scientists have began looking at alternative materials for those batteries' electrodes – materials such as silicon.

VTT Technological Research Centre of Finland (VTT) coordinates a new European project, which focuses on studying anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic waste and developing its control.

Using new silicon carbide (SiC) diodes, Siemens and its research partners have succeeded in increasing the power of frequency converters by almost ten percent.

Vietnam has produced the first line of solar batteries that meet international standards, offering consumers quality and affordable alternatives that cost 20-30 percent less than imported batteries.

The Asia Development Bank (ADB) has recently released the “Energy Outlook for Asia and the Pacific” Report suggesting regional nations enhance cross-border power exchanges to meet the booming demand for power, which is set to outpace the rest of the world in the next two decades.

Florida Power & Light’s Office of Clean Energy (Juno Beach, FL, U.S.) on October 1st, 2013, announced funding for a range of solar power installations and educating customers on solar energy.

Nineteen teams of students from the United States and Europe unveiled their designs for solar-powered, energy-efficient homes at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Solar Decathlon 2013, which began on October 3rd, 2013 in Irvine, California.

The world's largest solar-powered boat has docked on the banks of the Seine River, its final port of call after a three-month voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to study how the Gulf Stream and climate change could influence each other.

Last year, photovoltaic solar power in Italy accounted for some 5.6% of the total energy mix produced, and the number is only increasing.

The Ho Chi Minh City Energy Conservation Center launched the support program to perform energy audit and establish the energy management system for 50 local businesses.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Indonesia ’s Government will build a cross-border power transmission line to bring cleaner and greener electricity to 8,000 households in the country’s West Kalimantan province.

Vietnam and Timor Leste have agreed to enhance ties in politics, economics-trade-investment, agriculture-forestry-fisheries, energy, information-communications, and education and training.

Cooperation in energy, especially oil and gas, plays an extremely important role in the developing strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia , Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said.