The next generation Toyota Prius engine achieves 40% thermal efficiency, says a report in Nikkei Technology. Toyota made the announcement at last week’s Spring Conference of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Yokohama, Japan.

Some 22 years after an on-site survey began, construction on a large-scale geothermal power plant in Akita Prefecture kicked off Monday.

The SuluNur Kazakhstan scientific-technological consortium has begun production of energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs, which are as effective as 250-watt glow bulbs, but require only 40 watts of electricity, according to a report by Tengrinews.

Targeting energy efficiency in non-residential university buildings, a three-year a Europe-wide SMART CAMPUS project reached 30% energy savings, 10% beyond the expected 20%.

On May 24, 2015, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology, HCM City Youth Union held a creative contest in model assembling with the theme "Energy saving".

An EU-funded project on access to renewable and efficient energy in the municipalities of Vayk and Spitak in Armeniahas started work, aiming to support the municipalities to develop and test replicable models to save energy through the use of efficient measures and renewable sources in residential and public buildings.

Storage of energy from renewable energy sources is vital to Europe’s energy policy. DTU Energy and partners use atomic modelling to develop a rechargeable zinc-air battery that is able to store large amounts of energy.

At Entech Hanoi in 2015, besides the advanced technologies and products of overseas and local businesses, there are also various models on display, unique in ideas about the use of energy, invented by university students.

In response to the National Target Program on Economical and Efficient Use of Energy, for the past 5 years (2010 - 2014), through the Power Saving Movement, Energy Saving in households, Hanoi has more 132 million kWh of electricity saved, equivalent to more than VND160 billion. Communication is evaluated as an important contribution to this outcome.

Asahi Glass Co., Japan has brought to the Trade Fair Entech Hanoi 2015 a technology of energy saving glass which can potentially save over 30% of energy.

23 May 2015 Ha Noi – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Viet Nam’s Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh cut the ribon to inaugurate the official opening of Green One UN House (GOUNH) in Vietnam.

AJapanese technology firm Ricoh is looking at its new "energy-generating rubber" as one solution. According the company, the new piezoelectric polymer converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency, yet is extremely flexible and durable.

The Spanish Kurata Systems business group, led by the Torres family, has launched a new industrial plant in Barajas de Melo (Cuenca), which converts waste from refinery, industrial oil and plastic into fuel oil through a process of treatment, gasification and molecular transformation.

A laser land leveller - a machine equipped with a laser-operated drag bucket - is much more effective and quicker at ensuring a flat, even surface.

Four Japanese companies have developed a cogeneration system that recovers hot wastewater with high efficiency from a gas engine in the form of steam, announced the companies on Thursday.

On May 21, within the framework of the International Exhibition Entech HANOI 2015, the Conference "Solution to Improve the Energy Efficiency in Industry and Building" was held.

The PBCF is an energy-saving device attached to the propeller of a vessel. It breaks up the hub vortex generated behind the rotating propeller, resulting in a decrease of more than 9,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year because of a 3-5% reduction in fuel consumption.

Belarus is ready to implement complex energy-saving solutions, BelTA learned from Andrei Minenkov, Head of the Research and Technology Policy and Foreign Economic Ties Office of the Energy Effectiveness Department of the State Standardization Committee of Belarus.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) published the 2015 edition of its biennial City Energy Efficiency Scorecard today, ranking U.S. cities based on their local energy policies and initiatives. And for the second time in a row, Boston is top of the class.

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