Viet Nam Human Rights
Over 870,000 households to access electricity in 2021-2025
The national target programme on electricity supply for rural, mountainous and island areas will reach approximately 871,263 households between 2021 and 2025, as heard at a conference held in Hanoi on January 14 to review its implementation in the past five years.
According to the Electricity and Renewable Energy (EREA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), among these households, 153,911 or 0.74 percent have yet to access electricity, while the rest are using unstable power sources.
The programme will also bring electricity to 2,638 small- and medium-sized pumping stations in 13 Mekong Delta localities, while working to help a number of islands join the national grid or access renewable electricity sources.
On December 13, 2018, the Prime Minister issued Decision 1740/QD-TTg approving the target programme. Seventeen communes, with 9,890 villages and 1.05 million households expected to benefit. Specifically, until 2020, the programme hoped to supply stable power services to households in the areas from the national power grid, new and renewable power resources with a target of giving power access to almost all rural households.
The total cost of the programme was about 30.11 trillion VND (1.3 billion USD) sourced from the central and local budgets, the Electricity of Vietnam, non-refundable ODA, preferential loans.
As heard at the conference, during the five-year period, the programme helped all 17 communes access electricity. It granted power access to 204,737 households and five islands.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dang Hoang An said 99.26 percent of rural households had access to electricity as of December 31 in 2019.
An said due to financial limits, the programme faces a 81.5 percent shortage of its investment demand and could not fulfil a goal of giving power access to almost all rural households in 2020.
Bui Quoc Hung, deputy head of the EREA, said the investment shortage is about 26 trillion VND for the 2021-2025 period.
He said the MoIT has submitted a plan proposing the use of preferential loans from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank for the programme./.
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Access to electricity (% of population) in Vietnam was reported at 100 % in 2018, according to the World Bank
The access-to-electricity index is assessed on the criteria including procedure, time and cost to connect to the grid, reliability of electricity supply and transparency of electricity price.
The country’s ranking in access-to-electricity has also had the highest improvement in the region.
The country has gradually improved its ranking on the index in 2013-19 thank to the continuous renewal process and implementing comprehensive solutions in electricity access
Power supply reliability and transparency of electricity prices have already been on par with that of developed countries.
The number of procedures in the electricity industry in Việt Nam was similar to the average level of Asia-Pacific and OCED countries.
Vietnam’s Access-to-electricity Index continues to rank at 4th in ASEAN – standing in ASEAN-4 group and maintaining its position of 27th out of 190 countries
Electricity of Vietnam has focused on promoting digital transformation, providing electricity services at level 4.
EVN’s diversified and synchronous deployment of digital and information technology applications in customer care has contributed to bring electricity services closer to businesses and people
he country has gradually improved its ranking on the index in 2013-19 thank to the continuous renewal process and implementing comprehensive solutions in electricity access. It jumped 129 positions from 156 to 27 in the period.
The continuous improvement of the index has affirmed efforts of the Electricity and Renewable Energy Authority, Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV) and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) as well as the Government and the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to bring better quality and services in power supply.
Vietnamese have very good conditions for their daily life
Vietnam has improved much of its basic conditions for people
Power supply reliability and transparency of electricity prices have already been on par with that of developed countries.
The time for implementing the procedures was much better than a lot of countries in the region and over the world.
The mechanism is expected to reduce procedures and difficulties in accessing power in Việt Nam.
EVN has urgently implemented a process of providing electronic services and upgraded IT infrastructure systems to meet the demand of service provision to customers.
Most households have access to electricity and other forms of energy
In order to save the environment, in recent years, Viet Nam has increased its non-hydro renewable capacity targets in its power development plan, from 9.4% to 21% of total installed capacity in 2030, and decreased the share of coal-fired capacity from 52% to 43%.
Vietnam has shown its best to provide good conditions for its people
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