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Hundreds of households in Ho Chi Minh City have been benefiting from homegrown solar power systems.

A project to build power transmission lines and a 220kV power transformer for connecting local solar energy projects to the national grid started in Binh Phuoc province on December 25.

The Government has approved an additional six solar power projects with a combined capacity of 850 MWp in Binh Phuoc, raising the total solar energy capacity of the southern province to the highest in the country.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued Decision 1740/QD-TTg approving a target programme for power supply in rural, mountainous and island regions in the 2016-2020 period.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the country’s largest hydropower scheme Lower Sesan II on December 17 in the northeastern province of Stung Treng.

As many as 18 disadvantaged ethnic minority households in Bui village, Ia Ka commune of Chu Pah district, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai recently got access to electricity.

The Electricity of Vietnam Group’s Southern Power Corporation (EVNSPC) will invest nearly 8 trillion VND (344 million USD) to provide power for rural areas in 12 cities and provinces, as well as island communes in Kien Giang and the Mekong Delta region, by 2020.

Construction for a 40.6MW solar power plant started in the Mekong Delta province of Long An on September 16.

The HCM City Electricity Corporation encourages households to install rooftop solar panels and now there are 475 of them connected to its grid with a total capacity of nearly 5.3MW.

The Tay Ninh Power Company has splashed out 175 billion VND (7.7 million USD) on the upgrade and repair of 45 electricity grid works in key economic zones, as well as rural and border areas.

The Cat Linh - Ha Dong elevated railway in Hanoi has been connected to the national power grid since the beginning of July for its trial operation this month.

As many as 800 families living in a remote commune in Dak Nong province on the Central Highlands have recently been given access to electricity.

A series of preferential policies have encouraged the development of renewable energy.

The Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway has been connected to the national power grid since the beginning of July for its trial operation this month.

A new record for summer power consumption was made, peaking nearly 711 million kWh on June 22, according to the Electricity National Load Dispatch Centre (EVN NLDC).

The construction of Vietnam’s biggest solar power plant with capacity of 168 MWp and total investment of roughly 4.4 trillion VND (194 million USD) commenced in the south central province of Ninh Thuan on June 8.

Almost 95 percent from Thuan Ha and Thuan Hanh border communes in Dak Song district, the Central Highland province of Dak Nong, have accessed electricity thanks to a local power project in 2014-2020 period.

The implementation of synchronous measures to improve the power supply system has brought a facelift to Vietnamese rural areas, with 99.98 percent of communes nationwide and 98.83 percent of households accessing electricity as of 2017.

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).

More than 270 businesses and households in Ho Chi Minh City have installed solar power panels on roofs with a total capacity of about 3,600KWp, according to the HCM City Power Corp under Electricity of Vietnam.