The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is backing a drive to increase solar energy capacity in Asia-Pacific by six-fold to 3,000 megawatts by 2013.The ADB plans to provide up to US$2.25 billion in financing for solar projects and draw in a further $6.75 billion, mainly from the private sector, said Xiaoyu Zhao, vice-president for operations.

The US administration will only buy vehicles using alternative energy sources to equip its fleet by the end of 2015, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday. The timeline is part of Obama's plan to cut US oil imports by a third by 2025 and put a million advanced vehicles on the road by 2015.

The idea is simple, says Kevin Moeller, PhD, and yet it has huge implications. All we are recommending is using photovoltaic cells (clean energy) to power electrochemical reactions (clean chemistry). Moeller is the first to admit this isn't new science. "But we hope to change the way people do this kind of chemistry by making a connection for them between two existing technologies," he says.

Located in the province of Hai Duong, Hong Duong Co., Ltd. is an enterprise specialized in producing and processing agricultural products, foodstuffs and types of salt with the production capacity of 12,000 tons of salt per year. Although the equipment is relatively uniform and modern, each year, the company still consumes a lot of energy: 278,400 kWh of electricity per year and 367.2 tons of coal per year. How to reduce consumption of these resources is the main concern of the company's leaders.

Thai Nguyen is known not only as the revolutionary base, the cradle of the metallurgic industry, but also the center of education - training of Viet Bac, and ranks 3rd in the number of universities, colleges, secondary vocational schools located in the locality. Therefore, the demand for electricity is very high, the current maximum power consumption is 250MW, and the required power output is 4.5 million kWh per day, of which electricity for industrial production accounts for nearly 80%. So in recent years, Thai Nguyen has been actively implementing energy saving in all sectors from industrial production, offices to public lighting...

This was a prerequisite for building plans of sustainable development and more proper distribution of electric energy, thus overcoming the chronic shortage of electricity and helping businesses build a clear orientation for power efficiency so that they could reduce production costs and improve competitiveness.

Hãng sản xuất xe hơi Toyota của Nhật Bản ngày 7/6 tuyên bố sẽ lắp đặt 17.000 tấm pin Mặt Trời cho nhà máy của hãng đặt tại Anh nhằm cắt giảm 2.000 tấn khí thải CO2/năm.Các tấm pin Mặt Trời tại nhà máy Burnaston đặt tại Derbyshire, miền Trung nước Anh trên sẽ bao phủ một diện tích là 90.000m2, tương đương với diện tích của bốn sân bóng đá.

Chính phủ Brazil sẽ cấp khoản tín dụng trị giá 22,1 tỷ USD trong giai đoạn 2011-2014 cho việc phát triển các dự án về nhiên liệu sinh học thông qua Ngân hàng nhà nước về phát triển kinh tế và xã hội (BNDES).Quốc gia Nam Mỹ này đứng đấu thế giới về sản xuất ethanol từ mía đường với sản lượng hàng năm lên đến 11 tỷ lít.

Sáng ngày 4/6, tại Đại học FPT, tòa nhà Detech, số 8, Tôn Thất Thuyết, Hà Nội Công ty TNHH Truyền thông và Sáng tạo Xanh và Câu lạc bộ 350Vietnam đã phối hợp tổ chức Diễn đàn sáng tạo xanh – sử dụng hiệu quả năng lượng và năng lượng tái tạo với sự hỗ trợ của Hội Đồng Anh và Viện Nghiên cứu Công nghệ FPT. Đây là chương trình mở đầu cho chuỗi các sự kiện thuộc Diễn đàn Sáng Tạo Xanh 2011.

Hãng Daimler đang có ý định đầu tư xây dựng mạng lưới các trạm cung cấp hydro cho các mẫu xe chạy pin nhiên liệu. Người đứng đầu bộ phận Mercedes-Benz Cars Dieter Zetsche tuyên bố: “Chỉ khi có đủ số trạm nhiên liệu hydro, những người lái xe mới có điều kiện hưởng lợi từ những thuận lợi của công nghệ này: Thời gian nạp nhiên liệu ngắn, có lượng khí thải bằng 0”.

The Rome-based Global Bioenergy Partnership today released a voluntary policy for producing and using biomass and biofuels in ways that don’t add to climate change or affect food prices. The partnership, established in 2005 by the Group of Eight nations and five emerging economies, also includes 13 international organizations and institutions.

Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further boosted the energy conversion efficiency of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (also known as CIGS) to a new world record of 18.7 percent -- a significant improvement over the previous record of 17.6 percent achieved by the same team in June 2010.

Two months on from the natural disasters that ravaged Japan’s infrastructure and economy, its government has said it is determined to plough forward with efforts in the field of sustainable development through trilateral cooperation. The country has committed to promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency to reach sustainable growth in the country as it rebuilds itself, officials said in a statement on Sunday.

Germany is coping without about three quarters of its nuclear power capacity by burning more climate-warming coal, reaping the rewards of renewables investments, and importing more French atomic energy. The shutdown over the weekend of another nuclear plant means almost 16 gigawatts of German nuclear power capacity was offline Monday, with nearly half of the capacity ordered to shut by the government in reaction to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March.

Efficiency is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed a flexible solar sheet that captures more than 90 percent of available light, and he plans to make prototypes available to consumers within the next five years.

More evidence that clear, strong policies are key to renewable energy development came recently via the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). In a statement issued by the association, some statistics about wind energy growth in the country and the states that lead in wind energy development indicate that areas with strong policy are driving development at an impressive pace.

Quỹ Cải tiến ôtô Xanh trực thuộc Chính phủ liên bang Australia sẽ đầu tư gần 40 triệu AUD cho Holden - hãng sản xuất xe hơi liên doanh với tập đoàn General Motors (Mỹ) - để giảm thiểu hơn 7% lượng nhiên liệu tiêu thụ của dòng xe Commodore.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant suggested that there were large gaps in international systems to deal with safety breaches. Ban also announced a high-level international meeting on the issue in New York on September 22 during the UN General Assembly session.

At the Electricity Customer Conference in 2011, one of the typical reports on the most successful energy saving measures in 2010 was delivered by Quy Nhon Green Parks and Urban Lighting Ltd., whose measures not only beautified the city with high efficient lighting but also saved great amounts of electric energy. Correspondent of Vietnam Electricity Central Power Corporation Website (EVNCPC) had an interview with Mr. Do Dinh Phuong - Director of Quy Nhon Green Parks and Urban Lighting Ltd. on this issue.

According to Mr Vu Huy Quang - PV Power CEO, PV Power plants are operating stably, securely and efficiently, and have high power output. Four units of PV Power have generated commercial electricity: Ca Mau 1 and 2, Nhon Trach 1, Nhon Trach 2 with the stable annual power output of about 12.5 billion kWh, accounting for 15% of total electricity production nationwide. Particularly in 2010, PV Power's total commercial electricity output reached 12.685 billion kWh.