Binh Dinh to build wind power plant next year
A wind power plant is expected to be built in the central province of Binh Dinh in the first quarter of 2012.
Wind Power
Gov’t injects US$1 billion in Mekong wind power plan
HCMC - Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) on Tuesday signed a credit agreement worth US$1 billion with Export-Import Bank of the U.S. to fund a major wind power development plan in the Mekong Delta in 2011-2015, said Nguyen Viet Cuong, general director of VDB’s Transaction Office 2.
Strong boon needed to boost renewable energy
HCMC - The general chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy has suggested that the Government have policies that reward producers of electricity from wind and other natural resources, and encourage making the most of resources available in the country.
GE wants to join wind power projects in Vietnam
HCMC - GE Energy will join projects developing wind power and supply equipment for projects in the industry, said Nguyen Xuan Thang, country executive of GE Energy Vietnam.
City to increase renewable energy sources
HCM City plans to promote strongly the development of renewable energy over the next decade.
Putting wind in the sails of power producers
Wind energy is expected to play an important part in the Government's plan to increase the share of renewable energy from 2.5 per cent in 2008 to 5 per cent in 2020.
Opportunities for wind power development
Vietnam is boosting investment in developing wind power to replace exhaustible fossil fuels and protect the environment.
EVN executive grilled over wind power price
HCMC - Local and foreign-invested enterprises raised a slew of questions about the newly-approved wind power price and development of renewable and traditional energy sources for Vietnam Electricity Group’s (EVN) planning director at a business luncheon in HCMC on Tuesday.
Wind power price fixed at VND1,614 per kWh
HCMC – Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has the responsibility for buying all of the electricity generated from wind power projects with a fixed price of VND1,614 per or 7.8 U.S. cents for one kWh.
More incentives expected for wind-power projects
HCMC – The investors of wind power projects will likely enjoy a higher power selling price plus preferential taxes, according to a draft master plan for wind power development just submitted to the Prime Minister for approval.
From Environment
Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated
THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed
No funds to evacuate landslide areas
HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of
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