Viet Nam has installed 6 coal plants’ worth of solar in a year

Viet Nam offered generous incentives to households and businesses to install rooftop solar last year. By the time the scheme ended, 9.3 gigawatts of extra generating capacity had been added – equivalent to six coal-fired plants.

The country, which has previously been heavily dependent on coal for electricity generation, now has more than 101,000 rooftop installations on homes, offices and factories, creating a 25-fold increase in its solar generating capacity in just one year.

A key feature of the incentive scheme was a generous feed-in tariff for solar users to sell surplus power to the national electricity grid at a price guaranteed for 20 years. Viet Nam favoured rooftop solar because it does not use scarce land or require new transmission lines.

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While COVID-19 dampened global demand for electricity, Viet Nam delivered a 25-fold increase in its solar power capacity last year.



source https://gadgeteer.co.za/viet-nam-has-installed-6-coal-plants-worth-solar-year

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