Nghe An Electricity Company responds to Earth Hour Campaign 2024

Earth Hour event was launched with the desire to create a ripple effect in the social community, contributing to raising awareness about energy saving and sustainable environmental protection.

Responding to the Earth Hour Campaign in 2024, Nghe An Electricity Company has implemented many practical programs. Specifically, mobilizing organizations, agencies and customers to turn off lights and unnecessary electrical equipment during Earth Hour from8:30 PM to 9:30 PM Saturday, March 23, 2024.

Thoroughly disseminate to all affiliated units, officers, employees and workers to implement all solutions to ensure electricity supply, thoroughly implement electricity saving solutions at units, families and customers managed by the unit.

Coordinate with local authorities and organizations, unions, press agencies, and local information systems to carry out many innovative and effective forms of propaganda in practice, impacting many customer groups in transforming awareness into actions of using electricity economically and effectively, promoting the Earth Hour Campaign 2024 and electricity saving activities in Nghe An province.

Responding to this year's Earth Hour Campaign, Nghe An Electricity Company posted propaganda content on electricity saving and environmental protection in response to the Earth Hour Campaign 2024 through images, video clips, and text running on screens, on websites, and social network fanpages on Facebook, Zalo, etc. of the units from now until the end of March 2024. In addition, it launched all employees and customers to participate in the online contest "Learning about energy saving and efficiency" in response to the Earth Hour Campaign 2024. The contest was held fromMarch 16 – March 31, 2024.

Mr. Le Nam Hung - Head of Business Department, Nghe An Electricity Company said: On this occasion, Nghe An Electricity Company printed more than 500 banners and posters to promote Earth Hour, and at the same time, organized many propaganda activities with the hope that all people, customers and businesses not only turn off lights and unnecessary electrical equipment for 1 hour, but also act together, form the habit of saving electricity, saving energy, joining hands to protect the environment, towards a green future.

According to statistics, during the 60-minute lights-off period of Earth Hour 2023, in Nghe An province, the capacity decreased by 9 MW, equivalent to 9,000 kWh of electricity saved; The whole country saved 298,000 kWh.

Earth Hour is an initiative of the World Wildlife Fund to raise public awareness about climate change and energy saving around the world. To date, the Earth Hour Campaign has become one of the world's largest environmental campaigns, responded to in more than 180 countries and territories.

In Vietnam, Earth Hour is a social activity chaired by the Ministry of Industry and Trade since 2009, aiming to raise public awareness of climate change and energy saving by encouraging households and production and business establishments to turn off lights and unnecessary electrical equipment for 60 minutes.

Over the past 16 years, Earth Hour in Vietnam has attracted the attention and response of many agencies, organizations, businesses and people nationwide. Thereby, it shows a positive change in public awareness towards the use of energy economically and efficiently.