With a view to use renewable energy source, world’s fourth largest railway network, Indian Railways has rolled out its solar energy powered coaches.

Researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering used this insight to invent something totally new: they've combined two promising solar cell materials together for the first time, creating a new platform for LED technology.

In the quest for better, less expensive ways to store and use energy, platinum and other precious metals play an important role. They serve as catalysts to propel the most efficient fuel cells, but they are costly and rare.

Energy Recovery, a US-based company specialising in pressure energy technology for industrial fluid flows, has announced a US$3.96mn order to install its PX Pressure Exchanger devices in the Quriyat independent water project (IWP).

A project that is expected to help save around 50% of energy used to heat multi-storey buildings in Romania has bagged a loan from the EU bank.

Georgia has been granted a loan worth $125 million (£80m) to support energy efficiency in the Caucasus.

To encourage “Energy Conservation & Environment Protection” in the industrial sector PCRA has been continuously upgrading the energy conservation knowledge through energy audits and sharing the experience of energy efficiency improvement and achievement of industries.

Enhanced energy efficiency is – and will continue to be – both a technical and economic challenge. It is critical to success for manufacturing companies.

Nearly 40 % of energy consumption in the EU goes to heating, cooling and lighting buildings. Their energy demands account for large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions.

To meet the demand for electricity supply, serving production, business and daily needs of the people, while it is necessary to ensure continuous power supplies, Ba Ria - Vung Tau provided guidelines to agencies, units and enterprises to enhance the power saving for the last 6 months of 2015 in the province.

Implementing the National Target Program on economical and efficient use of energy, Long An Power Company has been stepping up its public communication to electricity users in the program.

The loan will be used to buy 82 new double-deck electric trains offering improved energy-efficiency and capacity, as well as special barrier-free passenger comfort for the RRX project.

The projects are designed to demonstrate performance and commercial-readiness, further reduce both product and manufacturing costs, and validate hydrogen production utilizing the SOFC technology in an electrolysis configuration.

Roger Melanson, minister of New Brunswick’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, today announced aggressive new fuel-efficiency standards for passenger vehicles sold and used in the province.

Stemco has developed a datalogger that fleets can use to measure the fuel-saving performance of TrailerTails within just four hours.

Kazakhstan Vice-Minister for Investment and Development Albert Rau and the heads of the German Energy Agency Dena - board chairman Andreas Kuhlmann and director Ulrich Benterbusch, signed a memorandum of strategic partnership in energy conservation and energy efficiency in the first Kazakh-German Energy Forum , Kazpravda.kz correspondent reports.

Economical and efficient use of energy in buildings and construction, the encouragement of greening construction materials are two out of five main tasks of the construction industry under the National Action Plan for green growth construction.

Energy costs may only represent a small percentage of turnover in farming, but reducing them can directly increase profits and competitiveness.

A new energy-efficient air conditioning system, valued at $8.4 million, has been installed at the maternity ward of the Spanish Town General Hospital in St. Catherine.

Duke Energy plans to upgrade its 36-megawatt energy storage and power management system at the utility’s Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas to better serve the local grid, the utility said in a June news release.