A £96m project will promote cleaner and more efficient energy in Morocco. The Clean and Efficient Energy Project will be co-financed by a US$125 million (£80m) World Bank loan and a US$23.95 million (£16m) loan.

Rackspace has opened one of the UK’s greenest data centres, cutting operating energy by nearly 80 per cent

UK provider of commercial PayGo solar systems, Azuri Technology, has announced that it plans to partner with Oasis African Resources to provide 100,000 off-grid homes in Ghana with pay-as-you-go solar power over the next 2 years.

A project to replace 3.89 million street lamp bulbs with energy-efficient ones is expected to save Egypt 1.5 billion Egyptian pounds, the electricity minister said on Thursday.

UK DIY store Wickes saved more than £500,000 on its energy bill last year after training its staff to cut energy usage.

To implement the energy efficiency program, Binh Thuan Industrial Promotion Extension Centre in collaboration with Red Sun Energy JSC recommended the advantages of LED TUBE lighting products, while offering the co-investment program to Hai Nam Company Limited.

ABB’s ENVILINE energy management solutions offer up to 30 percent energy savings for direct current (DC) rail transportation. This innovative and holistic technology is presented at the 60thUITP event in Geneva.

The US has funded $1.5 million (£1m) to tackle air pollution in the city of Oregon. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will use the funding to remove air pollution from diesel-fuelled activities around its Port in Portland.

Small and medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam account for 40% of total energy consumption in the industrial sector. The potentiality for energy efficiency is large, but local policies to promote savings for the sectors of brick, ceramics and food processing are not really showing the effects.

The Yukon government is announcing a new addition to its popular suite of energy incentive programs, aimed at improving energy use in multi-family dwellings and commercial buildings.

Scotland could fail to meet its renewable heat target unless it stops using gas-fired boilers.That’s according to Scottish Renewables, which claims progress in the sector has been slow, with just 3% of heat coming from renewable sources.

The Ninh Thuan 1 Nuclear Power Plant will be built in Thuan Nam District and Ninh Thuan 2 in Ninh Hai District. Total expected capacity will be around 4,000 MW for each plant and will use light water reactor technology.

Andijan city hosted a seminar “Increasing efficiency of energy resources use at the industrial enterprises” for representatives of mass media. The seminar was organized by the World Bank Country Office in Uzbekistan and Ministry of Economy of Uzbekistan.

A German company has built five new solar plants and connected them to the UK’s National Grid. They have a total capacity of 62.5MW – enough to power around 20,000 homes.

The European Commission has approved state aid for the construction of 20 offshore wind farms in Germany.

Fairfield University in Connecticut has employed many measures to reduce energy, and its Associate Vice President of Facilities David Frassinelli offers the following ideas for how other colleges and universities can do the same.

The EU Cityfied project aims to develop a strategy that will adapt European cities into smart cities by improving energy efficiency.

Breezes Muirhead will soon be home to Darwin’s largest installation of solar panels in a single suburb thanks to a partnership between developer Defence Housing Australia (DHA) Country Solar NT.

One goal of Holland’s Home Energy Retrofit Pilot Program is discovering what energy savings are possible in Holland’s housing stock. Another is figuring out an efficiently plan that would make possible home retrofits for hundreds of houses a year.

Urban rail systems in Europe have already achieved a target to reduce their energy consumption by 10 per cent by 2020.

On April 10th, the Workshop on “Policy and Financing of Energy Efficiency in Vietnam” under the Low Carbon Transition in Energy Efficiency Project (LCEE) was held.

Hungarian architect Matyas Gutai believes that water is the perfect material for keeping a house at a comfortable temperature.

Algae may indeed be a potential source of biofuel, but it can also find use in things like nutritional supplements and cosmetics.

Resources and energy specialists WorleyParsons has successfully closed out two key renewable energy projects, with a third still underway, and a fourth close to completion.

Experts of LCEE Project Mission worked with the Provincial Department of Industry & Trade, Can Tho Energy Conservation Center and the representatives of locally based banks in the area to reach the potential enterprises in food processing industry.

The LCEE Project has successfully organized the Workshop on the Green Investment Facility to support SMEs in the food processing industry in Can Tho. The Project officers provided instructions to companies involved in the project to complete the loan application dossiers.