MANILA – Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Thursday urged the Senate to pass a measure allowing the use of waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies to help solve the country’s garbage problem.

Businesses and households will enjoy a 10 per cent cut to their power bills in the next three months to ease the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Hanoi (VNA) – Adjustments have been made to biomass power prices under the Prime Minister’s Decision No.08/2020/QD-TTg on amendments and supplements to several articles of the Decision No.24/2014/QD-TTg dated March 24, 2014. Accordingly, the prices will range from 1,634 – 1,968 VND (0.07 – 0.08 USD) per kWh, exclusive of added value tax.

Vietnam has received its first coal shipment from the U.S., paving the way for further imports amid rising demand to produce electricity. Over 21,700 tons arrived this month in the northern province of Quang Ninh from California, state-owned coal mining company Vinacomin said in a statement on Wednesday. The second batch is scheduled to arrive […]

HANOI: The government of Vietnam is building open mechanisms to mobilise private investment in power projects, especially in renewable energy (RE).

Vietnam will implement a plan to eliminate fossil-fuel vehicles, tighten emission control and add more green spaces to urban areas. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Wednesday approved the National Strategy for Environmental Protection to 2030 with a vision until 2050, in which the government sets targets to prevent the increasing trend of environmental pollution, […]

Vietnam invested $7.4 billion in solar and wind power last year, ranking 8th on the list of renewable energy investments the world over. Weert Börner, deputy ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Vietnam, said Friday that Vietnam has the potential to become a renewable energy superpower.

Vietnam has committed to combat climate change by reducing emissions and promoting sustainable energy development, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at an online climate summit Friday.

The generous tariff is considered crucial by the Vietnamese government to maintain high levels of development in the rooftop segment until 2021. Vietnam’s state-owned utility EVN has confirmed that it will maintain the 20-year feed-in tariff for rooftop PV installations not exceeding 100 kW in size at the rate of $0.0935/kWh until 2021. The decision […]

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Vietnam considers a new price mechanism to adjust fuel prices every five days instead of the current 10-day cycle to address a number of issues that resulted in sporadic fuel shortages across the country in recent months, local media reported Thursday, Nov. 17.