Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
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Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
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Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#2The EU and US massively restricting / taxing Chinese solar has its upsides. This might be quite the leapfrog and actually getting solar into countries with lots of sun is quite a meta-efficieny effect. I wonder though how a country like Vietnam can get it's grid in order to cope with a lot more natural energy.
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#3The EU and US massively restricting / taxing Chinese solar has its upsides. This might be quite the leapfrog and actually getting solar into countries with lots of sun is quite a meta-efficieny effect. I wonder though how a country like Vietnam can get it's grid in order to cope with a lot more natural energy.
home grown solar panel manufacture?
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#4The EU and US massively restricting / taxing Chinese solar has its upsides. This might be quite the leapfrog and actually getting solar into countries with lots of sun is quite a meta-efficieny effect. I wonder though how a country like Vietnam can get it's grid in order to cope with a lot more natural energy.
I don't know about Vietnam, but at least in many parts of India people are used to the grid being unreliable anyway.
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#5So they want to be ~20% carbon free in thirty years? That is not a very ambitious goal. Especially if you consider that they want to increase the amount of energy produced from coal from ~30% in 2015 to ~50% until 2030. [1]
[1] https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/vietnam-makes-a-big-push-f...
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#6So they want to be ~20% carbon free in thirty years? That is not a very ambitious goal. Especially if you consider that they want to increase the amount of energy produced from coal from ~30% in 2015 to ~50% until 2030. [1] [1] https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/vietnam-makes-a-big-push-f...
Yeah that's what I got from the article.
> Currently solar power only accounts for 0.01 per cent of total power generation capacity in Vietnam, but the government plans to increase the ratio to 3.3 per cent by 2030 and 20 per cent by 2050.
This is not very impressive, they plan to add 3.3% solar in the next 12 years, I don't find that revolutionary at the moment.
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#7So they want to be ~20% carbon free in thirty years? That is not a very ambitious goal. Especially if you consider that they want to increase the amount of energy produced from coal from ~30% in 2015 to ~50% until 2030. [1] [1] https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/vietnam-makes-a-big-push-f...
Yeah that's what I got from the article. > Currently solar power only accounts for 0.01 per cent of total power generation capacity in Vietnam, but the government plans to increase the ratio to 3.3 per cent by 2030 and 20 per cent by 2050. This is not very impressive, they plan to add 3.3% solar in the next 12 years, I don't find that revolutionary at the moment.
having them moved away from that nuclear power plant is a big relief for Vietnamese people already. This is still a huge leap, I would say. Basically, they are just following what China is doing (slowly) so if renewable energy could make a huge impact in China, they might accelerate the program.
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#8The EU and US massively restricting / taxing Chinese solar has its upsides. This might be quite the leapfrog and actually getting solar into countries with lots of sun is quite a meta-efficieny effect. I wonder though how a country like Vietnam can get it's grid in order to cope with a lot more natural energy.
We (the west) should be strongly encouraging this in developing countries. We have the money, we have the instruments, all we need is the will.
The US put men on the moon using 1960's technology and brought them back alive. Switching the world to 100% carbon neutral energy production should be more than achievable.
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah that's what I got from the article. > Currently solar power only accounts for 0.01 per cent of total power generation capacity in Vietnam, but the government plans to increase the ratio to 3.3 per cent by 2030 and 20 per cent by 2050. This is not very impressive, they plan to add 3.3% solar in the next 12 years, I don't find that revolutionary at the moment.
having them moved away from that nuclear power plant is a big relief for Vietnamese people already. This is still a huge leap, I would say. Basically, they are just following what China is doing (slowly) so if renewable energy could make a huge impact in China, they might accelerate the program.
> having them moved away from that nuclear power plant is a big relief for Vietnamese people already.
Why so exactly? It would have massively reduced emissions to have that nuclear power plant, now instead you have a vague promise they put on 2050, purposely far enough that it does not bind the government to anything.
Re: Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
#10The EU and US massively restricting / taxing Chinese solar has its upsides. This might be quite the leapfrog and actually getting solar into countries with lots of sun is quite a meta-efficieny effect. I wonder though how a country like Vietnam can get it's grid in order to cope with a lot more natural energy.
We (the west) should be strongly encouraging this in developing countries. We have the money, we have the instruments, all we need is the will. The US put men on the moon using 1960's technology and brought them back alive. Switching the world to 100% carbon neutral energy production should be more than achievable.
There's no political or economic will. It won't happen.