The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom (UK), the Dragon capital group and the Energy conservation center (ECC) of Ho Chi Minh city have recently had an announcement on supporting enterprises in Ho Chi Minh city, Binh Duong, Long An and Dong Nai provinces to develop rooftop solar power system to generate a clean and stable energy source for internal consumption.

With the financial support of the Commonwealth Fund of the United Kingdom, the first phase of “Supporting the development of solar power in southern Vietnam” (Solar Hub) will be taken place until March 2017. The program includes technical assitance for developing the preliminary feasibility study, measurement of solar radiation, and calculation of economic benefit of rooftop solar power system.

The Solar Hub project will collect data of existing systems to develop a database for providing solar power information to stakeholders such as governmental agencies, equipment providers, consultants and enterprises who are interested in solar power production.    

A representative of the Commonwealth Fund, Mr. Andrew Holt said Vietnam will be one of the first countries who benefits from this Fund. The Solar Hub project will contribute to promoting investment from private sector on solar energy. Thanks to that, Ho Chi Minh city can become “solar power center” of Vietnam.

The Government of the UK has allocated about 1.1 million pound from the Fund in 2016-2017 period to support projects in Vietnam which focusing on promotion of low carbon energy, etc.

Source: Monre