Responding to Earth Hour Campaign 2025: The whole country saved 448,000 kWh after 1 hour of turning off the lights

On the evening of March 22, 2025, in response to the Earth Hour Campaign, many countries and territories around the world, along with 63 provinces and cities in Vietnam, turned off lights and reduced the use of electrical equipment for 1 hour, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Earth Hour is one of the annual global events on environmental protection, with the response of many countries and territories. The Earth Hour campaign has created great changes in awareness and actions of people around the world in saving energy and protecting the environment. Starting in Sydney - Australia in 2007, with more than 2 million participants, up to now, the campaign has attracted the response of nearly 200 countries and territories and billions of people worldwide.

Earth Hour in Vietnam has been organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Vietnam and the Ministry of Industry and Trade since 2009, aiming to raise public awareness of climate change and energy saving by encouraging households and businesses to turn off lights and unnecessary electrical equipment for 1 hour.

2025 marks the 17th time Vietnam has participated in this campaign. Over the past 17 years, Earth Hour in Vietnam has attracted the attention and response of 63 provinces and cities, along with many agencies, organizations, businesses and people nationwide. This shows a positive change in public awareness towards the use of energy economically and efficiently.

With the spreading effect of the Earth Hour event, promoting the results of implementation over the years, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has launched the movement "All people save energy in response to Earth Hour 2025" with the message "Green transition - Green future". The movement does not only stop at calling for electricity saving, but also aims at a broader goal of encouraging sustainable energy production activities, increasing the use of renewable energy, promoting the application of energy-saving products and equipment, contributing to improving energy efficiency in both economic and environmental aspects.

In order for the program's activities to be meaningful and effective, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has requested the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and Vietnam Electricity Group to coordinate in organizing communication activities in response to Earth Hour taking place in March to attract the attention of many organizations, agencies and people in the provinces and cities to participate in the campaign; mobilize organizations, agencies and people to turn off lights and unnecessary equipment during the event. Turn off the lights in response to Earth Hour.

Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) is one of the typical units, always actively cooperating to effectively implement the program. Actively responding to the Earth Hour campaign, EVN takes advantage of the spreading power of the internet, digital transformation and social networks to promote propaganda on saving electricity and protecting the environment.

People respond to Earth Hour Campaign 2025. (Photo: EVN)

The Group also requested Power Corporations and Power Companies in provinces and cities to step up propaganda on electricity saving and environmental protection at customer transaction locations and headquarters. At the same time, mobilize organizations, agencies and customers to respond to the campaign by turning off lights and unnecessary electrical equipment from 20:30 to 21:30, Saturday, March 22, 2025.

After many years of active participation, the Earth Hour campaign in Vietnam has spread strongly across the country, becoming a meaningful annual activity taking place every March. From propaganda and awareness raising, up to now, the campaign has made an important contribution to transforming awareness into concrete actions, encouraging the community to practice saving electricity, using energy efficiently and protecting the environment.

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Author: Ngoc Han

Source: https://moit.gov.vn/tin-tuc/su-dung-nang-luong-tiet-kiem-va-hieu-qua/huong-ung-chien-dich-gio-trai-dat-2025-ca-nuoc-tiet-kiem-448.000-kwh-sau-1-gio-tat-den.html