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HCMC encourages waste-to-energy projects, offering opportunity to investors

25 December 2017
Vietnamnet
Electricity policy and administration / Renewable energy production / Solid waste
garbage / plants / waste-to-energy

More than 40 investors have expressed willingness to develop plants which burn waste to generate electricity. Director of the HCMC Department of Natural Resources and the Environment Nguyen Toan Thang said at a conference calling for investment in WTE that with the annual growth rate of ...

 Chi Mai

Vietnam raises power price by 6.08 percent

Vietnamese consumers woke up on Friday to a 6.08 percent electricity price hike that authorities failed to announce until one day before it came into effect. Power prices in the Southeast Asian country now average VND1,720.65 per kWh, excluding value-added tax, compared to the previous ...

 Tuoi Tre News Reporter

Rising coal prices cost Vietnam billions

17 November 2017
Tuoi tre News
Coal / Generation and distribution facilities / Non-renewable energy production
coal / power plants

Steep increases in global coal prices are forcing Vietnam’s coal-fired power plants deeper and deeper into the red as they struggle to minimize losses caused by cost overruns worth billions of U.S. dollars.Keep reading ...

 Tuoi Tre News Reporter

As coal rises, waste remains an issue

3 November 2017
Vietnam Investment Review
Air pollution / Coal / Electricity policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Solid waste / Water pollution
ash / coal / disposal / power plants / requirements

The Ministry of Construction is set to release its mandatory requirements for coal ash disposal early next year, threatening to shut down coal-fired thermal power plants that cannot adequately treat, store, or reuse their coal ash and gypsum discharge.Keep reading ...

 Phuong Thu

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