Oil-fired electricity production to triple as dams go dry

A halt to investment in new coal-fired power plants is required to check the trend of increasing coal consumption, a report warns.

The UN chief on Saturday warned Asia to quit its "addiction" to coal, as climate change threatens millions of people vulnerable to rising sea levels.

Vietnam has to import 1-4 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas a year in 2021-25 to meet the growing power demand.

A 420 MW solar power project, the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, has officially started production in Tay Ninh.

Vietnam plans to import electricity to overcome the imminent electricity shortage caused by delays in building new power plants.

A spate of solar plants seeking to benefit from the government's pricing incentive of 9.35 cents per kWh are overloading the national grid.

Delays in many electricity projects threaten the south of Vietnam with power shortages next year, the industry ministry says.

Lawmakers on Tuesday voted against a government bill which they felt would undermine parliament’s oversight over major national projects.

Lawmakers are unhappy that Vietnam’s monopoly electricity distributor is raising power tariffs at will because it has no competitor.

National Assembly deputies are concerned a new government proposal could take away their power to approve major national projects.

Vietnam is seeing a surge in electricity demand as summer heat intensifies while water shortage constrains power production.

Hanoi has begun to pay consumers who produce rooftop solar power and send back to the grid.

Government inspectors will study the latest power price adjustment that saw electricity bills go up by 8.36 percent from March 20.