Rooftop solar power is gaining popularity in the northwestern province of Dien Bien, helping households and businesses cut electricity costs, ease pressure on the power grid and support green development.
Although Hanoi is not a coastal locality, it frequently faces heavy rains, strong winds and thunderstorms triggered by storms that threaten power lines and public safety if preparedness is not in place.
The meeting welcomed ADB’s readiness to invest up to 10 billion USD of its own resources over the next decade in support of the APG, including crossborder interconnections, and other APG-related investments (domestic grid strengthening and renewable energy for power export). It also also welcomed investment from the WB through its 2.5 billion USD "Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition Multi-Phase Programmatic Approach (ASET-MPA)" programme, approved in 2024 to ramp up renewable energy and promote power trade across the region.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), the Vietnam Electricity (EVN), and experts shared the view that power supply will be basically guaranteed this year, but the challenge is that demand is forecast to surge amid the post-pandemic economic recovery.
Vietnam Electricity (EVN) said it is accelerating power generation and grid projects, especially urgent infrastructure, to ensure supplies in the hot season.
The Ho Chi Minh City Load Dispatch Centre has put its Control Centre No. 2 into use to help ensure absolute safety for the southern metropolis’s large power grid.
The French Development Agency (AFD) is committed to helping the Vietnam Electricity (EVN) upgrade the power generation and distribution infrastructure in a smarter and more flexible way and with technology upgrades.
With the new year approaching, ethnic minority people in Muong Nhe district, Dien Bien province have gotten a spark of joy and been connected to the national power grid.
The Phu Quy Island District Electricity Company has just inaugurated a management and operation centre on the island, which is said to be a starting point for future projects such as solar and other power plants to meet demand.
Electricity losses in the northern region have continued to drop, standing at 5.21 percent in the first four months of 2018, down 0.34 percent year on year, according to the Northern Power Corporation (NPC).
Vietnam has favourable conditions to develop solar energy across the country, but it needs an economical, technically feasible net-metering scheme to promote solar PV rooftops in the country, experts said.
The Cham Islands, 18km off the coast of Hoi An city, gained access to the national power grid on September 3, after a one year construction project to install a 15.5km sub-marine cable system.
Cambodia and China will join hands to bring power to Cambodia’s rural areas after approving a plan on the construction of a power transmission system in 13 provinces and cities on March 30.
The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group is continuing its efforts to upgrade and develop the national power grid in rural areas in order to connect all communities by 2020.
As many as 60 power plants have joined the electricity market directly so far this year with a total capacity of 14,952 megawatts, accounting for 40 percent of the national power system.