Major hydropower plant in northern Việt Nam remains safe

Thác Bà hydropower plant, completed in 1971, is the first hydropower plant in Việt Nam and its reservoir is one of the three biggest artificial lakes in Việt Nam, situated over two communes Lục Yên and Yên Bình, the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái.

PHL counting on renewables as energy crisis looms

WITH the sole indigenous natural gas source responsible for 20% of Luzon’s power needs expected to run dry, the looming energy crisis is sending the Philippines on a mad scramble to adopt renewable energy before the lights start going out.