Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently sacked Dao Van Hung, the chair of the State-owned Electricity of Vietnam for the corporation's poor performance on his watch due to heavy investment into non-core areas like telecom, securities, and real estate even while facing a shortage of funds for investing in power generation.

Vietnam is determined to prioritise the development of renewable energy such as wind, solar and gas-fueled power so that this source of energy will account for 6 percent of the nation's total power output by 2030.

The Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex) has announced its plan to build a 200 km-long pipeline to import oil products from China's Guangxi to Quang Ninh province in Vietnam.

First Solar, Inc. officially broke ground on its new Vietnam photovoltaic production facility earlier this week. When complete, the new facility will produce more than 250 megawatts of thin-film photovoltaics annually.

The first turbine of Son La hydropower plant was officially put into trial operation at 12:45 on December 17, 2010, joining the national power grid in order to start commercial operation on December 25, 2010.

WASHINGTON - Thin-film solar manufacturer First Solar, Inc. of the United States announced on Thursday that it would build two new manufacturing plants, one in Vietnam and the other in the U.S., to accommodate an expected influx of work, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.

n the near future, most thermo power plants in Vietnam will have to depend on coal import to maintain operations . Looking at this crisis situation Vietnam must develop a sustainable solution to develop power sources in future.

The government of Binh Thuan Province has decided to suspend the licensing of new wind power development projects because many of the potential areas for wind power development overlap on titanium mines, according to Binh Thuan's Department of Industry and Trade.