Alongside foreign investment, Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund Danantara is also expected to play a key role in supporting the development of WtE projects, given their financial viability.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will submit the revised National Power Development Plan VIII to the Prime Minister for approval by February 28, 2025, Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Long has said.
Malaysia’s Ministry of Plantation and Commodities on October 22 proposed investing in new technologies and infrastructure to more efficiently convert waste from palm oil production into biomass energy.
As landfill solutions become increasingly outdated, the development of waste-to-energy plants is expected to be the key answer to environmental problems.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Industry and Trade and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) jointly organised a conference on technology and finance for waste-to-energy projects on April 11.
Thailand’s National Energy Policy Council (NEPC) plans to increase the number of new waste-to-energy (WTE) projects next year to ease worries about the growing volume of garbage.
Vietnam needed to develop policies to encourage investments in waste-to-energy, also called bioenergy, which would significantly contribute to protecting the environment, experts have said.
Hanoi will prioritise the use of Japanese technology in waste treatment projects in the future, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung at a reception for Japanese Vice Minister of the Environment Takaaki Katsumata in Hanoi on January 10.
A delegation from the General Directorate of Energy and the Global Green Growth Institute on Aug 30 held a working session with Soc Trang on the planning for biomass power development in the locality.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 18 inspected a waste-to-energy (WTE) technology model – a made-in-Vietnam invention successfully applied in Dong Van 2 industrial park in Ha Nam province.
France’s CNIM Group had a working session on December 16 with officials of the southern province of Dong Nai to discuss investment possibility for a waste-to-energy power plant in the locality.
