Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 Affordable and clean energy

Banks now keen on green credit

Green credit is now a trend in the global banking and finance industry and more Vietnamese banks are following suit. The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has taken welcome steps to develop Vietnam’s green credit market with its successful pilot of the Green Credit Program, according ...

Construction of Vietnam's first LNG terminal to begin next month

State-run PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas) and its partners plan to start construction of the country’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in southern Vietnam next month. The Thi Vai LNG terminal in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province is expected to come on stream by 2022.Under ...

Hung Le

Hanoi to host Control - Automation Conference & Exhibition

The fifth Vietnam International Conference and Exhibition on Control and Automation (VCCA 2019) will take place from September 4 to 7 at the Friendship Palace, 91 Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi.With the theme “Automation in the Industrial Revolution 4.0”, the event will include ...

Le Diem

New technologies needed to boost energy efficiency

Applying new technologies is considered an effective way to save energy in industry amidst surging demand and certain problems in power supply, heard a forum in Hanoi on August 21.Although the power demand growth rate for the time ahead will slow down to about 8.5 ...

Vietnam Coalition for Climate Action debuts

The Vietnam Coalition for Climate Action (VCCA) made its debut at a ceremony held in Hue city on August 21 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Vietnam and the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID).VCCA has attracted the participation of 12 businesses, ...

Promoting renewable energy an urgent requirement: experts

Along with its rapid economic growth, Vietnam’s electricity demand is also increasing strongly, at around 10 percent a year, causing huge pressure on the energy sector, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.As a country with a tropical monsoon, and sun and wind all ...

Vietnam improves its position on Sustainable Development Goals

Vietnam is up three ranks on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Index this year, moving ahead on several fronts. The country is ranked 54th among 162 countries and territories on the SDG Index, which tracks countries’ performances on achieving the 17 SDGs set by the United ...

Phan Anh

National power grid unable to cope with influx of new solar plants

Eighty-one new renewable power plants began operations in the second quarter, overloading transmission lines. The overload began in June when a large number of plants went on stream simultaneously to beat the June 30 deadline to enjoy price incentives of 9.35 U.S. cents per kWh feed-in ...

Nguyen Hoai

Commercial banks provide loans for green energy projects

Commercial banks are offering more low-interest loans with long repayment terms for household solar-energy projects. Under Viet Nam’s renewable energy development strategy, approved in 2015, the country aims to increase the ratio of electricity from renewable sources from 35 per cent of total output in 2015 ...

Major solar power complex and renewable energy project inaugurated in Ninh Thuan

A solar power complex with a total capacity of 330MWp, the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, was inaugurated at a ceremony held on April 27 by Vietnamese BIM Group in Phuoc Minh commune, Thuan Nam district, Ninh Thuan province, with the presence of ...

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