By Vi Vu  February 27, 2018 | 05:51 pm GMT+7 Vietnam plans to increase solar power supply to 3.3 percent of the country’s total output by 2030, from the current 0.01 percent. Photo by Reuters The plant is expected to start operations in September and generate enough power for over 32,600 households. Asian electronics giant Sharp has signed an agreement to build a huge solar power plant in central Vietnam, a move that could tap the country’s largely unused renewable energy resources. Sharp Corporation and Vietnam’s Gia Lai Electricity JSC agreed last Friday to build a 48MW plant in Thua Thien Hue Province on Vietnam’s central coast, Japanese JCN Newswire said. The plant is expected to start operations in September 2018, generating enough power for 32,628 average households in Vietnam, or around 0.1 percent of its population, said ICON, a news website run by the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam. The supply will help reduce CO2 emissions by around 20,500 tons a year compared to coal-fired power plants, which play a key role in Vietnam’s energy chain, the report said. Sharp is a multinational electronics corporation based in Sakai, Japan, and has been an integral part of Taiwan-based Foxconn Group since 2016. The agreement comes at a time when the country is calling for investment in solar power after plans to build two nuclear power plants with Russia and Japan were scrapped in November 2016 due to high costs. Solar power currently accounts for 0.01 percent of the country’s total power… [Read full story]
Viet Nam News KHÁNH HÒA - The Central Power Corporation (CPC) under the Việt Nam Electricity Group (EVN) will build a solar plant project with a capacity of 50 megawatts (MW) and solar farms in the south-central coastal province of Khánh Hoà. CPC's deputy general director, Nguyễn Thành, told Việt Nam News on Thursday that the plant will be located on 70ha in five rural communes of Cam Lâm District and Cam Ranh City, 40km south of the city of Nha Trang. He said the company has been awarded an investment certificate by the provincial People's Committee, and a feasibility…... [read more]
Mr. Cao Quoc Hung, Deputy Minister of MoIT and Mr. Joakim Parker, Director of USAID attend the Intentional Letter signing ceremonyAccordingly, USAID and the MoIT will cooperate through a 5 year technical support program, that focuses on initiatives related to the capacity building and implementing effective clean energy policies; measures to improve energy efficiency in much energy utilizing fields of the economy; speeding up capacities of the government, private sector and other relevant sides in renewable energy development for Vietnam. According to USAID Director Joakim Parker, the cooperation between USAID and MoIT aims to concretize the commitments to deal with…... [read more]
A unit of monopoly electricity provider Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has unveiled a plan to build two solar power plants in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan with a combined capacity of 350 MW. It expects to begin construction in the second quarter of next year and put the plants into operation in the first quarter of 2021. It will also use the site for hi-tech agricultural production. Genco 3 currently operates 12 thermal and hydro power plants around the country with a combined capacity of 6,549 MW, accounting for 17 per cent of the country’s power production. Foreign businesses…... [read more]
Supporting Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries to build infrastructure, particularly in electricity transmission and energy, remains a priority of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). With support from the bank, the three Indochinese nations of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have received positive assistance for electricity and clean energy development. Support for clean energy development The ADB Board of Directors recently approved a regional technical assistance project, to be funded by a US$4 million grant, for Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to scale up the use of biomass waste in the agriculture sector. The project is due to begin in July 2011 and…... [read more]
A clean energy and lighting project was inaugurated on Thursday on Song Tu Tay Island in the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago. The project was managed by Viet Nam's Naval Commander and the Viet Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam). More than 100 wind turbines, 4,000 solar panels and lighting systems with more than 600 lamps were installed on 33 islands in the archipelago. The wind and solar energy system is designed to produce electricity for the Spratly islands' residents and assist in the archipelago's socio-economic development. The project's total budget was VND438 billion (US$22 million). V.N.S... [read more]
