Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien has directed major coal, minerals, power, and oil and gas corporations and investors in power plants to ensure the supply of electricity, gasoline, and coal for Vietnam’s socio-economic development.
Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), corporations, and investors in power plants must ensure sufficient supply of coal for electricity production. No supply shortages or disruptions are permitted, he said during a recent working session with representatives from these corporations.
All parties must seriously implement signed contracts on coal purchases for power production.
The corporations were also instructed to boost cooperative activities to seek coal partners and exporters around the world, and to study mechanisms and policies from Laos regarding coal trading activities and look at the country’s coal market and possible transport routes to Vietnam.
Coal importers were asked to build importation plans with specific roadmaps and to prepare human resources, finances, and infrastructure for such imports.
Minister Dien also asked energy corporations to focus on increasing productivity.
The output of finished clean coal in 2022 was 42.4 million tons, 8.6 per cent higher than planned and 2.8 per cent higher than in 2021. The figure is expected to increase to around 57.8 million tons this year.
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