The Indochinese Energy Company (IC Energy) broke ground for theconstruction of a solar panel factory in the central coastal province ofQuang Nam on May 14.
Deputy Prime Minister HoangTrung Hai emphasised a dire shortage of energy as a huge challenge tothe world and Vietnam not an exception, after pressing the startbutton.
“ Vietnam may change its status from anenergy exporter currently to an energy importer (by 2015),” Hai, withexperience of a former industrial minister, warned.
He called for efforts to better tap all available energy resources, especially renewable energy.
In the national energy strategy for 2020 and the vision for 2050,renewable energy is set to make up five percent of the total energyproduction output by 2015 and eight percent by 2020.
The IC Energy-built solar panel factory has a design capacity of 120MW annually with all products to be for export.
The 390 million USD project is expected to provide jobs for some 1,000 local workers once completed in the next 12 months./.
Deputy Prime Minister HoangTrung Hai emphasised a dire shortage of energy as a huge challenge tothe world and Vietnam not an exception, after pressing the startbutton.
“ Vietnam may change its status from anenergy exporter currently to an energy importer (by 2015),” Hai, withexperience of a former industrial minister, warned.
He called for efforts to better tap all available energy resources, especially renewable energy.
In the national energy strategy for 2020 and the vision for 2050,renewable energy is set to make up five percent of the total energyproduction output by 2015 and eight percent by 2020.
The IC Energy-built solar panel factory has a design capacity of 120MW annually with all products to be for export.
The 390 million USD project is expected to provide jobs for some 1,000 local workers once completed in the next 12 months./.
