Vietnam

The flawed Environmental Impact Assessment done for the Song Tranh Dam hydropower plant is now being blamed for causing many tremors and quakes in Quang Nam province since last November.

Many of the 17 hydropower plant projects in Quang Nam province have not made much progress.

Vietnam has identified locations suitable for green and renewable energy projects that foreign firms can invest in.

Six hydropower projects of Vietnam's Thua Thien Hue Province that have low economic values and were forecasted to cause severe flooding were cancelled.

The Dakrong district of Vietnam's central province of Quang Tri will soon host a 25MW geothermal power plant.

Experts inspected the evacuation plan for people living in earthquake-affected areas near Song Tranh Hydropower Plant in central Quang Nam Province.

The 10th turbine in southern Bac Lieu Province's sea wind-power project has been installed.

The electricity industry in Vietnam is unique. The Government still controls large components of the industry. Critically, it controls the price. This Article discusses the general pricing regime.

Vietnam’s largest hydro power has launched its last turbine, fulfiling its work on time for 2012.

More than 900 million kWh have been saved in Vietnam's electricty system since the beginning of year.

Erstwhile Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Hoang Quoc Vuong, has been appointed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung as chairman of the Electricity Group of Vietnam.

The Electricity of Vietnam will have to complete recalculating electricity production cost before October 1, 2012 to propose pricing plan.

Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang had approved the supplementary protocol and necessary documents to join the  IAEA’s Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.

Southern Power Corporation of the Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) will sell power to farmers in An Giang Province at a lower price.

Son La hydropower plant will increase its capacity to 2,400MW when it final generator starts service on September 20.

Refrigeration Electrical Engineering Corporation will step up investment in hydropower and thermo-power companies, says the company's chairwoman and CEO, Nguyen Thi Mai Thanh.