An Giang promotes bio-energy
The project began in An Giang province in April this year and will run until December 2013.
Half of the 860,000 EUR investment comes from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
The project will provide technical assistance and enhance capacity in
developing initial projects, as well as ensure the efficient use of
energy, especially renewable energies.
Participants at the seminar also discussed building smaller community
sized power plants fuelled by waste materials such as straw and rice
husk in An Giang province in the near future.
The
Swedish specialists talked about their experiences in accessing
information services, market and financial techniques, building up
businesses and financial planning.
According to
Huynh The Nang, Vice Chairman of An Giang’s provincial People’s
Committee, the project is extremely significant as utilising bio-energy
fuels could ensure the province’s energy security and sustainable
development.
He emphasised on the need to deal
with waste from the agriculture and seafood sectors, and how it could be
used to produce bio-energy, address environmental issues and minimise
the use of fossil fuels.
The province is calling
on businesses to get involved in renewable energies, efficient energies
and other environmentally friendly projects to complement the
Vietnamese-Swedish project to develop bio-energies, he said.-VNA