GreenRoad app alerting drivers to inefficient manoeuvres targeted at delivery and company car fleets A new smartphone-based tool promises to cut emissions and improve safety by alerting drivers to erratic or inefficient driving.

Mẫu chip mới sử dụng trên các thiết bị di động như smartphone hay máy tính bảng, được quảng cáo là có hiệu suất tương đương, thậm chí cao hơn tới 3 lần so với các model hiện nay đồng thời tiết kiệm điện năng hơn tới 5 lần.

A variety of Japanese businesses participated in a seminar on October 26 to discuss new financial mechanisms for applying energy saving technology to buildings and hotels.

A contract to construct the 260 MW Trung Son hydropower station, which is the first to be funded by the World Bank, was signed in Hanoi on October 22.

The Trung Son Hydropower Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN), yesterday signed a deal worth close to VND3 trillion (US$150 million) with a joint venture company to build and equip the Trung Son Hydropower Plant.

A team of students at the HCM City University of Polytechnics has developed an automatic solar-powered drip irrigation system for grapefruit farms in the central Ninh Thuan Province.

Theo Hội Hóa học Hoa Kỳ, ước tính có ít nhất khoảng 4 tỷ tấn urani trong nước biển và nước biển có thể góp phần tăng sản lượng năng lượng hạt nhân. Đây là ý tưởng được trình bày tại Hội nghị và triển lãm quốc gia Hoa Kỳ lần thứ 244 ở Philadelphia.

The Ho Chi Minh Energy Conservation Center in collaboration with the Red Sun Energy JSC and the An Giang Industry Promotion and Development Consultancy Center recently donated solar powered lamps to some poor households living at My Thanh Village, My Hoa Hung Commune, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province.

The Energy Conservation Center Hanoi (ECC Hanoi) under the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade launched a workshop on October 23 in Hanoi to present energy management models for commercial buildings in the city.

A conference entitled “Green Housing in Vietnam: between Tradition and Modernity” opened at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on October 16.

To raise the awareness and apply advanced technology to harness renewable energy sources and use them in large scale, Hanoi city has issued renewable energy development program period 2012 - 2015.

More than 100 trainees participating in this training course are leaders and technical staffs of nearly 50 businesses in which 30 businesses are key energy consumption units entire the city.

In order to raise awareness of efficient energy use, on October 22nd, Dong Nai Department of Industry and Trade organized a training course on Law on Energy Efficiency and Conservation and guidance on the implementation of the relevant documents for staffs of state management agencies and industrial enterprises entire the province.

A Green Economy conference on September 16 promoted the need to develop renewable energy sources in Vietnam, with participants from business and academia sharing experience and technological applications.

On October 17, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new five year programmes to help Vietnam address the impacts of climate change.

Hanoi Energy Conservation Centre (ECC), on 23rd October, 2012, held a confenrence to popularise the energy managemen model for commercial buildings in the city.

Ngày 20-10, Cty Air Fuel Synthesis của Anh tuyên bố vừa sản xuất được 5 lít xăng bằng phương pháp tổng hợp khí carbon dioxide (CO2) và hơi nước.

Environmental experts have called on Viet Nam to make further efforts in providing economic incentives and better policies to promote "greener" buildings in the face of resource depletion and rapid urbanization.

Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) Energy Saving Office consultant Nguyen Kinh Luan said that the application of energy management systems would help enterprises reduce energy costs, protect the environment and secure national energy security when addressing a workshop on the ISO 50001 Energy Management System.

To ensure energy security for sustainable development and build green, environmentally friendly industries, as well as to reduce the production cost and enhance the competitiveness of businesses to build a green economy, Vietnam is promoting renewable energy development, energy efficiency and conservation.