Thermal power plants are under much pressure as they seek to resolve environmental issues that are plaguing them.
TheMinistry of Industry and Trade on July 23 held a meeting on the issueto find solutions on how to treat the waste from the plants.
Atthe meeting, many power plant proprietors said the problems were causedby a lack of preferential policies on land, tax and loans to encouragethem to invest in resolving problems caused by pollution.
Theysaid, investment in waste treatment was very costly and solutions in therecycling of cinder and plaster were still limited.
Tran VanHai, Deputy Head of the Construction Management Board under Electricityof Vietnam, said the financial resources of most enterprises werelimited and enterprises would face many difficulties if they did notdevelop better policies.
It was also noted that many thermalpower plants would have to close because they were running out ofstorage capacity for cinders and ash left over from burning coal to makepower.
A representative of the General Department of Energy saidthe Government had issued permission for the companies to re-use wastefrom power and chemical fertiliser plants for production of cement andnon-flammable construction materials.
However, the official saidthere were still no technical standards or production lines to recyclewaste in the construction sector.
Some power plants, however, had found consumers who needed small quantities of these products, he said.
Accordingto the official, there was a need to review specific measures to tackleproblems at thermal power plants, such as those at Vinh Tan, Duyen Haiand An Khanh, which have a high risk of causing environmental pollution.
Also, in the long term, the provinces should study solutions to use coal ash for land fill and the building of roads, he said.
Headded that newly-built thermal power plants should have plans to buildstandard waste treatment systems and put them into operation before2020.
During the meeting, Deputy Minister of industry and tradeHoang Quoc Vuong instructed the General Department of Energy to reviewways of dealing with waste from power plants and setting up preferentialpolicies for waste-treatment projects.
Each year, Vietnam has totreat millions of tonnes of cinders, while storage capacities arenearly full, according to the department's report.
The countrynow has 19 thermal power plants in operation, with a total capacity of14,300WM, which consume roughly 42 million tonnes of coal per year anddischarge over 14.4 million tonnes of ash, occupying 700ha of land.-VNA
TheMinistry of Industry and Trade on July 23 held a meeting on the issueto find solutions on how to treat the waste from the plants.
Atthe meeting, many power plant proprietors said the problems were causedby a lack of preferential policies on land, tax and loans to encouragethem to invest in resolving problems caused by pollution.
Theysaid, investment in waste treatment was very costly and solutions in therecycling of cinder and plaster were still limited.
Tran VanHai, Deputy Head of the Construction Management Board under Electricityof Vietnam, said the financial resources of most enterprises werelimited and enterprises would face many difficulties if they did notdevelop better policies.
It was also noted that many thermalpower plants would have to close because they were running out ofstorage capacity for cinders and ash left over from burning coal to makepower.
A representative of the General Department of Energy saidthe Government had issued permission for the companies to re-use wastefrom power and chemical fertiliser plants for production of cement andnon-flammable construction materials.
However, the official saidthere were still no technical standards or production lines to recyclewaste in the construction sector.
Some power plants, however, had found consumers who needed small quantities of these products, he said.
Accordingto the official, there was a need to review specific measures to tackleproblems at thermal power plants, such as those at Vinh Tan, Duyen Haiand An Khanh, which have a high risk of causing environmental pollution.
Also, in the long term, the provinces should study solutions to use coal ash for land fill and the building of roads, he said.
Headded that newly-built thermal power plants should have plans to buildstandard waste treatment systems and put them into operation before2020.
During the meeting, Deputy Minister of industry and tradeHoang Quoc Vuong instructed the General Department of Energy to reviewways of dealing with waste from power plants and setting up preferentialpolicies for waste-treatment projects.
Each year, Vietnam has totreat millions of tonnes of cinders, while storage capacities arenearly full, according to the department's report.
The countrynow has 19 thermal power plants in operation, with a total capacity of14,300WM, which consume roughly 42 million tonnes of coal per year anddischarge over 14.4 million tonnes of ash, occupying 700ha of land.-VNA
