Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on July 18 approved an ambitious electricity development plan that calls for a roll out of a variety of power generation initiatives in a bid to keep pace with burgeoning industrial user demand.
The 2006-2015 blueprints is to place a heavy emphasis on foreign investment and partnerships as the country looks to boost the development of power supply and power grid networks while modernising Viet Nam's municipal electrical systems in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Hydropower plants, gas- and coal-fuelled thermoelectricity sources, cooperation with power exporting countries in the region and preparatory nuclear power programmes were all included in the country's energy roadmap.
The plan forecasts that the country’ electricity demands will increase by between 17 and 20 percent per year from now until 2015.
Via: Vietnam Economic Times
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