(Engineering daily) Nguyen Anh Duong = Vietnam will purchase more electricity from China and Laos.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade Le Van Luc said Vietnam imports about 1,000MW of power from China and Laos annually.
Electricity imports from these two countries are expected to reach 3GW by 2025 and 5GW by 2030, he said, explaining that the domestic power supply is running out.
Power supply sources that can be put into use between 2016 and 2030 have total capacity of about 7.8GW, more than 17.5GW lower than the expected figure in a revised national electricity development plan.
Because, many power projects are lagging behind schedule. Therefore, hydropower will account for only 12.4% of all electricity supply by 2030. That will add a further complication to the supply shortage, according to the authority.
