Phạm Trọng Thực, deputy director general for the Department of Industrial Safety and Environment in the Ministry of Industry and Trade speaks to the newspaper Công Thương (Industry and Trade) on the need to have specific measures to maximise the use of the combustion product coal fly ash.

Connecting household solar panels to the grid is seen as a positive way to make Đà Nẵng a ‘green’ city by 2025. Bùi Hoài Nam reports.

Electricity of Việt Nam (EVN) says it will ensure enough power is supplied for the coming dry season.

The Power Generation Corporation 3 (Genco 3) will put more than 267 million shares, accounting for 12.8 per cent of its charter capital, up for sale in its initial public offering (IPO) in February 2018.

Việt Nam National Coal and Minerals Group (Vinacomin) has targeted coal consumption of some 36 million tonnes in 2018, an increase of 2.5 million tonnes from this year, Đặng Thanh Hải, Vinacomin’s general director, said.

The average electricity retail price will officially rise today to VNĐ1,720 (7.6 US cents) per kWh, increasing 6.08 per cent from the current tariff of VNĐ1,622 (7.1 cents) per kWh.

Using coal bottom ash from thermo-power plants to produce construction materials would help reduce the volume of coal slag discharged into the environment in the Mekong Delta, heard at the seminar held by the Ministries of Construction and Industry and Trade in Cần Thơ on Tuesday (3 October 2017).

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has approved the proposal to build a coal shipment port in the southern region.

The Government has assigned the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to build a development roadmap for a competitive coal market as there are new coal suppliers.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to calculate retail power price adjustments every six months instead of three as it proposed.