Water and waste water treatment typically account for 35 percent of a municipality’s energy budget, which would mean big savings for local governments that can make the facilities energy neutral.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program focused on improving the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings.

In the afternoon of October 02, 2015, a Ceremony of Acceptance and Handover of equipment of Green Hospital Project among Vietnam – Germany Friendship Hospital, Mitsubishi Group and Ho Chi Minh City Energy Conservation Center was organized in Hanoi.

In order to implement efficiently the National Target Programme for economical and efficient use of energy in 2015, Industrial and Trade Promotion Center of Ha Giang Province implemented the project “Construction of pilot solar-powered illumination model at Square 26-03, Ha Giang City”.

Responding to the "National Target Program on Economical and Efficient Use of Energy", for two days September 28 and 29, 2015, Electricity of Yen Lac in collaboration with Yen Lac district Office of Education and Training and two primary schools of Kim Ngoc (Binh Dinh commune) and Pham Cong Binh (Dong Van commune) organized the extracurricular operation "Primary Schools join hands to save electricity" in 2015.

Vietnam has huge potential of renewable energy sources, widely distributed across the country, with nearly 3,400km of coastline to provide potential wind energy resources, estimated at 500 -1000 kWh/m2 per year.

Vietnam Journalists' Association and the Ministry of Industry and Trade have officially announced 32 works winning the nationwide journalism award "Communicating to raise awareness of Economical and Efficient Use of Energy 2014".

Vừa qua, hệ thống mang lọc chất thải của GE, công ty công nghiệp số toàn cầu đã được ứng dụng tại nhà máy xử lý chất thải O'Brien, giúp công ty này giảm thiểu nhu cầu năng lượng đầu vào tới 40% và tăng công suất hoạt động của hệ thống màng lọc tới 4 lần.

On September 25, 2015, the General Directorate (Ministry of Industry and Trade) in collaboration with Hai Phong Industry and Trade Department held a conference on training in “Implementation of inspection under the Law on Economical and Efficient Energy for Industry and Trade Departments in the Northern provinces”.

Hãng điện tử Phillips Thái Lan vừa công bố một chiến dịch "Phillips LED: Change Now, Save Now" nhằm khuyến khích người tiêu dùng chuyển đổi hệ thống đèn chiếu sáng thông thường sang hệ thống đèn LED.

These two different approaches to water conservation in the shower could make a dent in your water footprint.

Delhi is getting its first hydro-power plant, but it’s not harvesting the energy of running water in the traditional hydroelectric model, as this new system uses falling water from a treated sewage effluent pipe to spin its turbine.

Prime Minister has approved the list of Project “Promotion of use and operation of energy-efficient industrial boilers in Vietnam”, granted an aid given gratis by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) from aid sources of Global Environment Facility (GEF).

From September 21st to September 25th 2015, a training course on “Energy Auditors” will be held by the Hanoi Energy Conservation Center (ECC Hanoi) – Hanoi Department of Energy and General Department of Energy – Ministry of Industry and Trade. This course, one of the activities in response to Vietnam National Energy Efficiency Programme, aims at raising the knowledge of Hanoi enterprises about energy audits.

INTENSE aims at transferring intelligent energy saving measures for municipal housing from “old” EU Member States to “new” Member States and Accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Hydrogen could be the ideal fuel: Whether used to make electricity in a fuel cell or burned to make heat, the only byproduct is water; there is no climate-altering carbon dioxide.

Croatia is one of the recognized leaders in South-East Europe in the field of energy management, monitoring and assessment of the energy consumption, which are important aspects of the rational use of energy in buildings. That is why Croatia was chosen as the country for a study tour of officials and experts of Turkmenistan on energy conservation and management in buildings.

For the purpose of supporting agencies and organizations to access policies and technology solutions to economical and efficient use of energy, gaining economic and environmental benefits, Department of Science and Technology of Hai Phong held a seminar on “Energy-saving solutions for buildings”.

Công ty SolarEdge, Mỹ đã ra mắt công nghệ tăng công suất hoạt động của các máy biến tần phổ thông tới 99%. Công nghệ mới này hứa hẹn sẽ dẫn đầu ngành công nghiệp biến tần hơn trong vòng 20 năm tới.

The coal mining units will be charged the highest environmental fee of up to VND14,000/ton, an increase of VND4,000 compared with the current rate. This is the draft decree for environmental protection charges for mineral extraction which has been released by Ministry of Finance for consultation on September 4th, 2015.