Vietnam aims to start importing LNG in 2022 and sees LNG among its solutions for lowering carbon emissions and ensuring the country’s energy security, Vietnam’s Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien said.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Circular 9608/BCT-DL, in which it urges regional governments throughout the country and state-owned utility Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to suspend new approvals for large-scale PV projects under the FIT scheme. According to the Vietnam Clean Energy Association (VCEA), the government has already approved 135 projects with a […]

On 11 January 2022, the Office of Government of Vietnam (OOG) issued Document No. 229/VPCP-CN to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam (MOIT) for the next steps of updating the draft regulations on the implementation of the pilot program on the direct power purchase agreement (DPPA) mechanism between renewable energy power generation companies […]

Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed new Feed-in Tariff (FIT) rates as part of the country’s plan for an extension of the FIT scheme for wind energy projects entering operation from November 2021 to December 2023.

Vietnamese coal imports in October fell from a year earlier for the first time since March 2018, snapping a run of growth that has absorbed some of the Covid-19 pandemic-driven oversupply in Asia this year.

Vietnam will import 12 million tons of coal this year, 30 million tons in 2025 and 50 million tons in 2030 to fuel thermal power plants. Senior officials of the state-owned coal mining group Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin) said at a Friday meeting that it supplied more than 36 […]

Vietnam’s coal imports nearly halved in May from a year earlier, as a steady rise in hydropower and renewable energy output pressured coal burn.

This roadmap provides strategic analysis of the offshore wind development potential in Vietnam, considering the opportunities and challenges under different growth scenarios. It is intended to provide evidence to support the Government of Vietnam in establishing policy, regulations, processes, and infrastructure to enable successful growth of this new industry.

The supply chain of the UK wind power industry has faced huge challenges from lockdown measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A “titan” of the wind power industry, Siemens Gamesa, had to temporarily stop turbine manufacturing. To solve problems of businesses in this industry, on March 30, 2020, the British Government issued a directive on […]

Vietnam’s Power Development Plan 8 (PDP VII) draft for the 2021-2030 period with a vision towards 2045 has been significantly delayed, however, a finalized draft is expected to be submitted to the Prime Minister in May 2022 for approval. While the PDP8 has gone through several drafts, the latest revision proposes increasing electricity capacity to […]