More than 2,500 customers of the Dong Nai Power Company in southern Dong Nai province had installed rooftop solar panels with total capacity of nearly 50.9 million kWp as of the end of July.
Solar panels on the roof of a house in Trang Bom district, Dong Nai province (Photo: VNA)
Dong Nai (VNA) – More than 2,500 customers of theDong Nai Power Company in southern Dong Nai province had installed rooftopsolar panels with total capacity of nearly 50.9 million kWp as of the end ofJuly.
So far, Dong Nai has contributed more than 15.2million kWh of solar power to the grid, the company noted.
The province boasts huge potential for thedevelopment of renewable energy, especially solar power and energy from waste.
To Dong Nai, a major industrial hub, energydevelopment is important to its foreign investment attraction as well asreduction of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial activities. Tapping intorenewable energy potential will help ensure electricity supply and meet localsocio-economic development demand.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Tran Van Vinh said Dong Nai is home to 32 industrial parks covering10,200ha of land, along with many hi-tech and large-scale agriculturalprojects, which are favourable for rooftop solar power development.
As Dong Nai is an industrial province with 75percent of electricity output used for industrial activities, a figurepredicted to grow fast in the years to come, it is necessary to developrenewable energy, he added.
In the time ahead, the province will become oneof the localities taking the lead in rooftop solar power development, the DongNai Power Company said, adding that it is making an electricity developmentplan which will also cover rooftop solar power, and this plan will ensuresynchronous development of related infrastructure from generation, transmissionto distribution facilities.
Dong Nai is the biggest electricity consumer inVietnam, about 14 billion kWh per year, equivalent to 6 percent of the nationalelectricity output. Local power demand increases by over 7 percent everyyear./.
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Solar panels on the roof of a house in Trang Bom district, Dong Nai province (Photo: VNA) 
