Shell Eco-marathon Asia, held for the first time in Singapore from March 16-19, attracted more than 120 teams from 20 countries to compete in UrbanConcept and Prototype categories. The event is part of a global competition challenging students’ innovativeness and creativeness and requiring them to design and construct the most energy-efficient vehicles. Participating for the first time in the battery electric UrbanConcept vehicle racing, LH-EST’s vehicle excellently topped the Battery Electric–UrbanConcept category with the results of 107.8 km/kWh, followed closely by runner-up Dagisik UP from the University of the Philippines Diliman with 106.6 km/kWh. This is the third consecutive year Lac Hong University held the No. 1 spot in the UrbanConcept category of this contest. In the Prototype-Gasoline category, the fiercely competitive stage with the most teams participating, the HaUI AUTO Team of the Hanoi University of Industry came in fifth with the achievement of … [Read more...] about Vietnamese students win first prize at international energy-efficiency contest
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Bản in : Vietnamese businesses pushed to save energy
HCM City (VNA) - With many companies in Vietnam remaining energy inefficient, the demand for consultation on energy saving solutions is high. The HCM City Energy Conservation Centre, for instance, has been offering consultation to more than 200 companies a year. Ninety percent of them achieved satisfactory results, Huynh Kim Tuoc, the director of the centre, revealed at the inaugural ceremony of a programme to encourage energy-intensive companies to adopt energy-saving strategies in HCM City on November 25. At an interaction later with business executives, Le Phu Hung, Deputy Head of the General Department of Energy, said power consumption in Vietnam has increased sharply in recent years and is expected to surge further in the coming years. In 2013 energy consumption was the equivalent of roughly 36 million tonnes of oil, and in 2020 this is expected to go up to 77.6 million tonnes, with industry using 50 percent, he said. Transportation is the second biggest consumer at around 30 … [Read more...] about Bản in : Vietnamese businesses pushed to save energy
Deploying waste-to-energy technology in Vietnam
(VOVworld) - The waste-to-energy WTE technology of the Hydraulic Machine Ltd Company (HMC), a made-in-Việt Nam invention, has been piloted at the Đồng Văn 2 industrial park in Hà Nam province. WTE technology is based on a process known as gasification, which converts solid wastes into a synthesis gas (syngas) used as a fuel to generate electricity. The technology transforms unclassified solid wastes in an odorless and smokeless process that produces no waste water or solid residue, so no disposal by burial is needed. A representative of the Ministry of Science and Technology says the new technology is creative and enclosed and can be developed on an industrial scale. The invention is of great importance to Vietnam's National Strategy on Solid Waste Management until 2025 and Vision to 2050. During his visit to the Hydraulic Machine Ltd Company in Dong Van 2 Industrial Park, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said: "We don't talk about the matter of monopoly but we need to compare … [Read more...] about Deploying waste-to-energy technology in Vietnam
Raising awareness of energy savings in schools – Health & Education
The Hanoitimes - The addition of knowledge about energy saving in the frame of knowledge to pupils and students is the essential activity. But how can teach energy saving effectively? Pupils and students selected are subjects to propaganda and education on energy efficiency with two goals: To raise awareness and equip background on energy saving. Accordingly, energy conservation on educational activities for students has become one of the key activities of the national target program on energy saving. Representatives from Hanoi Energy Saving Center said that, for them, awareness of energy saving is profound and lasting. Propagation of energy saving measures in order to create habits, sense of students since they were sitting on the school, which affect habits, consciously use their energy in the future. Also, the kids will be the bridge to make very pervasive for energy conservation activities to other subjects such as friends, teachers, parents, thus creating more effective … [Read more...] about Raising awareness of energy savings in schools – Health & Education
Global energy CO2 emissions could be cut by 70 percent by 2050: IRENA
Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be reduced by 70 percent by 2050 and completely phased out by 2060, research by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed on Monday. To help achieve this, the share of renewable energy in primary energy supply would need to increase to 65 percent in 2050 from 15 percent in 2015, the report said. An additional $29 trillion of energy investment would be needed to 2050, equivalent to 0.4 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP). Such investment should provide stimulus that, with other policies supporting growth, would boost global GDP by 0.8 percent in 2050. Globally, 32 gigatonnes of energy-related CO2 were emitted in 2015. Emissions need to fall to 9.5 gigatonnes by 2050 to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, IRENA said. Source: Reuter … [Read more...] about Global energy CO2 emissions could be cut by 70 percent by 2050: IRENA