Vietnam has encouraged and created favourable conditions for coal-to-gas power transition projects, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said while receiving Finnish Ambassador to Vietnam Keijo Novaron and President and CEO for Wartsila Corporation Hakan Agnevall in Hanoi on March 12.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha (R) and Finnish Ambassador to Vietnam Keijo Novaron (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam hasencouraged and created favourable conditions for coal-to-gas power transitionprojects, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said while receiving FinnishAmbassador to Vietnam Keijo Novaron and President and CEO for Wartsila CorporationHakan Agnevall in Hanoi on March 12.
Speaking highly of the effective cooperation betweenVietnam and Finland in the areas of circular economic development, environmentalprotection and clean energy, Ha said Vietnam is now a partner of the EuropeanUnion (EU) and G7 countries to deliver on the net-zero commitment and the JustEnergy Transition Partnership (JETP).
Regarding the flexible power project of WartsilaCorporation, he asked the group to have the full consideration of the expenditure ofinfrastructure investment, gas purchase, power generation from renewableenergy, transmission system, among others, making the project suitable to theVietnamese market.
He also informed the guests of Vietnam’s policies of encouraging and attracting foreign investors to off-shore wind power development, direct power purchase,renewable energy equipment manufacturing, and waste-to-energy projects.
Ambassador Keijo Novaron, for his part, said Vietnam and Finland have workedtogether to promote sustainable development by cooperating in the fields of cleanwater supply, environmental hygiene, innovation, and afforestation.
The two countries have exchanged technologies and knowledge in the areas requiringstate-of-the-art technologies that they are interested in, he added.
Meanwhile, Hakan Agnevall said the corporation and its Vietnamese partner are working to carry out the firstflexible power project in Vietnam./.
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