Trade wars give US LNG a beachhead in Vietnam

Gas-to-power deals offer Hanoi a quick route towards reducing its trade surplus with the US and avoiding President Trump’s attention US pressure on Vietnam to reduce its trade deficit is creating a rare opportunity for US LNG producers to access a fast-growing Southeast Asian economy, fortuitously at a time when trade tensions are dampening their […]

Work starts on 2,000 tonne waste-to-energy plant in HCM City

HCM City (VNA) – The Tam Sinh Nghia Investment Development JSC on October 16 kicked off construction on a waste-to-energy plant with a daily capacity of 2,000 tonnes of waste at the Tay Bac Solid Waste Treatment Complex in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City. To be built at a cost of 5 trillion VND (216.58 million USD), the […]

Modern Energy Management gets job on 21-MW wind project in Vietnam

October 15 (Renewables Now) – Thai project management and engineering firm Modern Energy Management Co Ltd (MEM) said today it is supporting an unnamed company in buying and developing a 21-MW wind project in Vietnam. MEM did not disclose the name of its client, but noted that this project marks the confidential party’s entry into […]

Danes map Vietnamese offshore potential

The Danish Energy Agency is working with the Vietnamese Electricity and Renewable Energy Authority to map the south-east Asian country’s potential for offshore wind. Vietnam has a coastline of 3260km, with the sea east of Ho Chi Minh City considered one of the areas in south-east Asia with greatest potential for offshore wind, DEA said. […]

AES Dives Into Vietnam Energy, Here’s What’s Next

Last week, AES AES +0% Corp (AES) won Vietnamese regulators’ approval to build a 2.2-gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant in the south-central province of Binh Thuan. Slated for service in 2024 under a 20-year government contract, it will be fueled by the company’s 450 Tera BTU capacity LNG import and storage terminal, which enters service in 2022. The same day, […]

Will climate change spell the end of coal and hydropower in the Mekong?

This year has been rough for the 70 million people who call the Mekong River basin home:  a severe drought rocked the region for months before yielding to deadly flooding. The Mekong slowed to its lowest level in recorded history, knocking the world’s largest freshwater fishery—Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake—out of balance. The drought hurt the region’s fishing and farming […]