HA NOI — Viet Nam saved 546,000kWh of electricity, equivalent to VND712 million (US$34,000), by switching off lights during Earth Hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm on Saturday, according to Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN).

HA NOI — Viet Nam is currently in the process of developing a "green" gross domestic product (GDP) index which is expected to be ready for use in 2014.

Under the pressure of the public opinion and the government’s request, State-owned economic groups have to withdraw investment capital from ‘left-handed’ projects. However, this process is difficult and its sluggishness is justified by many arguments.

Influential oil consultants, including Dan Yergin, say limits on speculators in energy markets will led to less production, job losses and higher prices.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales is developing a project to integrate the solar panels mounted on the roof structure, which helps maximize the area of ​​heat to generate electricity.

Vietnamese and Japanese experts gathered in Hanoi on Mar. 26 at a seminar on application of information technology in energy saving and environmental management.

Scientists build robot jellyfish are able to take infinite energy from seawater to move. Yonas Tadesse, a researcher at the Virginia Institute of Technology in the U.S., and colleagues used the idea of metal mixture that are able to recovery shape after the impact of external forces to make robot jellyfish.

HCM City — Local LPG (liquid petroleum gas or cooking gas) trading companies are actually making handsome profits despite their repeated complaints about suffering losses every time international prices go up.

Engineers’ giant Sony Company, Japan has sought to invent energy from waste paper.

Bernard Couteaux, President Sugar & Ethanol Division of De Smet S.A. Engineers & Contractors, was joining the Belgian Delegation led by Crown Prince Philippe to Vietnam last week. De Smet is a supplier of equipment for the Lam Son Sugar Plant in Thanh Hoa Province, and the Bourbon Tay Ninh Sugar Plant. In a talk with The Saigon Times Daily, he discusses problems faced by the Vietnamese sugar industry and ways to deal with them.