Allowing private investors to develop electricity transmission lines is expected to be the best solution to settle the electricity shortage.
While China is struggling with the pandemic and is losing the confidence of foreign investors, proven resilience is pushing Vietnam to the fore as an ideal investment and manufacturing hub for Southeast Asia.
German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have signed a cooperation agreement with public and private partners to implement a new project on combining aquaculture and solar power in the Mekong Delta region.
International Finance Corporation-backed niche food processor Nafoods Group has secured a $5 million senior loan from Finnish development financier Finnfund, according to a statement by the Vietnamese firm.
Thai power group Super Energy Corporation will be acquiring four solar power assets in Vietnam at a transaction value not exceeding $457 million, it said in a regulatory filing. Through its subsidiaries, Super Energy will hold a 100 per cent interest each in two projects, and 70 per cent and 80 per cent in two others, respectively.
Our world has entered into an unprecedented period of profound social upheaval created by COVID-19 that demands firm and decisive leadership. Leadership that is intensively focused on our survival, on our collective actions and required behavioural changes – to build the foundations to thrive after this threat to human health and safety abates.
Bộ Công Thương vừa có văn bản báo cáo Thủ tướng Chính phủ xem xét bổ sung quy hoạch các dự án điện gió (Văn bản số: 1931/BCT-ĐL, ngày 19 tháng 3 năm 2020).
Amidst mounting challenges, wind power investors are proposing authorised management agencies an extension of the current preferential pricing (feed-in-tariff) scheme to the end of 2022, instead of the current November 1, 2021 deadline.
The increase in biomass power prices is a big move to boost capacity of this energy source to 3,000 MW by 2030.
The months ahead could be the best of times or the worst for renewable energy.
In the first quarter of 2020, the Vietnamese economy grew at the slowest pace in the past decade as the COVID-19 outbreak dealt a blow to key industries like services and manufacturing.
Chỉ số tăng 7,02% của GDP năm 2019 đưa Việt Nam thành một trong những quốc gia có nền kinh tế tăng trưởng hàng đầu khu vực Đông Nam Á. Bức tranh kinh tế vĩ mô 2020 được các chuyên gia dự báo "lạc quan trong thận trọng", đặc biệt trong quan hệ giao thương với Hoa Kỳ và kiểm soát tốt dòng vốn FDI.
Solar power is making a strong showing in Vietnam after years of shuttling from one extreme to the other, with the nation looking sometimes like it would revert to coal, and other times like it would invest in renewable energy.
The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh granted approval decisions and investment licences to four projects with accumulative registered capital exceeding 111 billion VND (4.7 million USD) in January.
Foreign companies are increasingly obtaining stakes and forming joint ventures with Vietnam’s logistics providers, spurring merger and acquisition activities in the country’s fast-growing logistics field. Thanh Van reports.