Vietnam home to nearly 50,000 rooftop solar projects
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| There are some 50,000 operational rooftop solar projects around Vietnam (Illustrative photo: VNA) |
Hanoi - There are some 50,000 operational rooftop solar projects around Vietnam with a combined capacity of about 1,200 MWp, Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has revealed.
Of these, 25,700 with 758.2 MWp were installed in the first eight months of 2020.
EVN reported that the sector generated and imported a total of 164.05 billion kWh from January-August, a year-on-year rise of 2.01 percent.
Of this, hydropower produced 39.03 billion kWh, down 12.75 percent against the same period last year, and coal-fired plants 88.87 billion kWh, up 11.66 percent.
Meanwhile, 24.96 billion kWh was generated by gas-fuelled plants and 1.04 billion kWh by oil-fired plants, respectively.
Electricity produced from renewable sources totalled 7.27 billion kWh. Some 6.39 billion kWh was from solar energy alone, surpassing the target and up 2.94-fold compared to the same period of 2019.
Notably, the proportion of customers using cashless payments for electricity bills stood at 61.5 percent in August.
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