Hanoi (VNA) – The design of a clean energy future in Vietnam was announced at aconference held in Hanoi on June 5.
Nguy Thi Khanh,Executive Director of the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID),said the design is the result of a GreenID study on development scenarios forelectricity sources in Vietnam.
With criteriafocusing on health benefit, feasible cost, and national energy security, theresearch showed Vietnam might not need to build coal-fired thermal power plantsbut still archive energy security at affordable prices.
Nghiem Vu Khai, ViceChairman of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA),said green energy is a smart move for Vietnam in response to climate change, asthe country hold potential in solar and wind power.
Dao Trong Tu,deputy head of the Centre for Sustainable Development of Water Resources andClimate Change Adaptation, highlighted a number of benefits brought about bythe design.
According to him,the design will help ensure energy security in the country via reducing coalimports and avoid the construction of about 25 coal-fired thermal power plants by2030, thus cutting the pressure of mobilising 60 billion USD for the building.
As a result, the country will not have to burn approximately 70 million tonnesof coal per year, which also means Vietnam will save about 7 billion USD a yearfrom cutting coal imports. The volume of CO2 emissions will drop by about 116million tonnes annually, while the air and water will become less polluted. Thedesign is estimated to help prevent 7,600 early deaths per year by 2030.
Participantsshowed their approval of the design, stating that the study put forth a safeand suitable option in meeting Vietnam’s future demand for energy.
The designpresents a country adequate energy with the environment and human healthprotected, said Nguyen Trong An, Deputy Director of the Research and TrainingCentre for Community Development.-VNA
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The Dam Nai wind power project (Photo: VNA) 
