[ti:Vietnam Energy Plan Aims to Increase Renewables]
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[00:01.40]In Vietnam, electricity outages can leave homes and businesses
[00:08.08]without power for hours at a time.
[00:11.92]However, a new national energy plan,
[00:16.20]called Power Development Plan 8, or PDP8,
[00:22.52]aims to increase Vietnam's energy production.
[00:27.84]Government planners hope PDP8 will more than double
[00:33.28]possible electricity production in Vietnam.
[00:38.28]The goal is to generate up to 150 gigawatts by 2030.
[00:46.76]The plan includes a big change
[00:49.84]away from coal and towards renewable energy.
[00:55.04]PDP8 aims to produce more electricity from wind,
[01:01.36]solar, hydropower and other renewable sources
[01:06.88]to make up almost 50 percent of total power capacity.
[01:13.80]However, the plan also aims to increase use of gas
[01:19.48]and imported liquified natural gas (LNG)
[01:25.16]for up to about 25 percent of power capacity.
[01:32.16]Under the plan, no new coal power stations can be built after 2030.
[01:40.44]The total amount of power from coal will likely increase by 2030.
[01:48.52]But planners said it will be a smaller percentage of total power production.
[01:56.80]That percentage is likely to be about 20 percent.
[02:02.48]Currently, Vietnam uses coal to produce about 30 percent of its electricity.
[02:09.88]The plan also calls for Vietnam
[02:14.12]to stop using coal for power production by 2050.
[02:20.64]However, paying for the plan might be difficult.
[02:26.44]Vietnamese planners aim to spend nearly $135 billion
[02:33.00]on new power plants and electricity grids until 2030.
[02:40.88]The German government warned that
[02:43.60]Vietnam's arrest of environmental activists
[02:48.20]could hurt financing for its energy plans.
[02:53.52]The G-7 group of big economies, including the United States,
[03:00.44]promised $15.5 billion in financing
[03:05.60]for Vietnam to end using coal-powered plants.
[03:12.44]The promise is a part of the Just Energy Transition Partnership
[03:18.16]similar to one reached with another Southeast Asian nation, Indonesia.
[03:26.20]Problems with gas supplies from Russia
[03:30.36]have increased gas prices and demand for LNG.
[03:37.80]However, investors want renewable sources, said Trang Nyguyen.
[03:43.64]She is leader of the Southeast Asia team at the Climateworks Centre,
[03:50.44]a non-profit research group based in Australia.
[03:55.76]She said it might be difficult to get financing for LNG.
[04:02.28]Aditya Lolla leads the Asia program at Ember,
[04:07.08]a policy group based in London.
[04:11.04]He said that problems with gas supplies because of the war in Ukraine
[04:16.96]might push Vietnam back to using coal.
[04:22.00]He added that would be more likely to happen
[04:25.76]if more of the country's electricity
[04:29.40]is not produced by renewable energy sources.
[04:35.68]In July 2022, Vietnam passed a law
[04:40.56]promising to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
[04:47.60]That means the country would not add
[04:50.68]any additional carbon gases to the atmosphere by that time.
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