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.

Design, engine fixed, car’s frame made, etc, all were done by these students. After several months, the three “made in Vietnam” cars have been completed and ready to take part in the “saving energy racing” with other countries.

Fresh details emerge of controversial government report into the economic impact of energy infrastructure

With plenty of sun-drenched, wide open spaces, Australia is an obvious place for large-scale solar power plants.

Four turbines at the Smøla wind farm in Norway are to have one rotor blade painted black to see whether increasing the visual contrast of the turbine against its background might help to reduce bird strikes.

In July 2013, Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation managed to save over 288.94 million kWh of electricity, accounting for 2.83% of the commercial electricity, reaching 79.6% of the target in the year 2013, and increasing by 2.35% as compared to the same period last year.

The 10th National Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology kicked off in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau on August 15 to discuss orientations for the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes in Vietnam.

Seven-year-old Nguyen Anh Nhan has become an unlikely poster boy for the electricity-saving cause.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University led by David Cliffel and Kane Jennings have come up with a way to dope silicon with a protein found in spinach to create a more efficient "biohybrid" solar cell that produces substantially more electrical current than previous efforts and may one day lead to cheaper, more efficient solar panels.

Aug. 2, 2013 — Researchers at the University of Basel have successfully replaced the rare element iodine in copper-based dye-sensitized solar cells by the more abundant element cobalt, taking a step forward in the development of environmentally friendly energy production.

From now to 2015, the city's Green Energy programme will promote the use of renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, thermal and bio-fuel.

According to Prime Ministerial Decision 53/2012/QD-TTg, by 2015, road vehicles in seven major cities and provinces across the country will be subjected to use bio-fuel (traditional petrol mixed with a certain amount of ethanol).

With beautiful architecture, combining modernity and tradition and relaxed, spacious grounds the Anantara Resort & Spa adopts a smart and efficient utilization of natural energy resources.

According to Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade, 100 enterprises from 11 different countries participated in the International exhibition on technologies of green energy and energy saving products – Enertech Expo 201

The Vietnamese government needs to set up a national nuclear regulatory agency right away, to ensure the country’s nuclear project gets underway as well as keeping in line with international rules and guidance that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) demands.

Two properties of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts have become the first hotels in Vietnam to receive the Green Globe Certification for their environmental awareness.

Saving 51.49 TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) of energy or VND781 million per year, reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 185.2 tonnes per year - the Hanoi Daeha Business Center has achieved these impressive energy conservation results thanks to green building development strategies.

Hanoi Energy Conservation Center Director Dao Hong Thai said that the Hon Gai Coal One Member Limited Company of the Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin) provides a typical example in the implementation of energy-saving solutions.

On June 26, the Energy Conservation Center Ho Chi Minh City (ECC HCMC) and Vinh Long Department of Trade and Industry signed a deal to cooperate and implement energy efficiency activities in Vinh Long province

Development of renewable energy requires large capital investment, and therefore, needs close cooperation between the state and private sectors. This cooperation model has been applied in many countries across the world including Vietnam.

According to reports from the Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN), in May 2013, an estimated 210.9 million kWh of electricity was saved

With the support of the Vietnam-Finland Innovation Partnership Program (IPP) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST),