Vietnam's domestic power emergency as thermal power plant projects face disinvestment

      According to foreign media news, Vietnam's long-prepared "Vinh Ngong 2" thermal power plant construction project, by international environmental organizations to environmental reasons and opposed, the project may be aborted. This has to make the original power tension of Vietnam more aggravated. Vietnam's plan shows that Vietnam may import more than 2 billion units of electricity from China to ease their power shortage.

　　The "Vinh Ngoc 2" project is the general name of a series of thermal power plants planned to be built in Vietnam in 2017. According to the original plan, the number of thermal power plants in Vietnam will reach 32 by 2020, and 20 more after ten years, which is one of the key infrastructures in Vietnam. However, just this recently, investors who are preparing to participate in the construction of the project, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and British companies, have received letters from international environmental organizations on the request to withdraw from the project "to ensure that corporate finances and honor are protected from adverse effects".

　　According to foreign media, the environmental group also said that because the global climate is warming, the construction of the "Vinh Ngoc 2" thermal power plant project in Vietnam will clearly aggravate this trend. The project will have a serious impact on the global climate problem, and the organization asked these companies to withdraw from the project, and also asked them not to participate in coal projects in the future.

　　"Vinh Ngoc 2 is one of the most important means to solve the power shortage in Vietnam, as the country's water resources are simply unable to meet the demand for electricity generation. It is expected that Vietnam's power shortage will reach 6.6 billion kilowatt hours by next year, and will increase to 15 billion kilowatt hours in two years, accounting for 5% of the total demand.

　　In order to solve the problem of power shortage in Vietnam, Vietnam plans to import electricity in China. Although the "Vinh Ngoc 2" project has made a "compromise" with international environmental organizations, but due to the need for economic construction, Vietnam's determination to develop thermal power plants should not change, they will still vigorously develop thermal power plants to solve the domestic electricity problem.