Vietnam pledges to implement measures to accelerate cooperation in
energy sector at the Energy Summit in Singapore on October 28.
Le
Tuan Phong, Deputy Director General of the General Directorate of
Energy under the Vietnam Ministry of Investment and Trade, made the
commitment which includes improving business and investment climate,
upgrading infrastructures and harmonising technical standards to
facilitate cooperation and connectivity, and establishing mechanisms of
technology transfer, information and experience exchange.
Vietnam
will facilitate and promoting bilateral and multilateral dialogues and
cooperation among energy producing, transit and consuming countries; and
promoting regional and national initiatives forwards energy security
enhancement and sustainable use of energy, he added.
In his
speech on Vietnam’s energy development strategy and proposals for
international cooperation, the Vietnamese head delegate said that the
country’s National Energy Development Strategy up to year 2020 and
vision to 2050 has put forward a number of objectives, including
ensuring national security and sufficient supply of energy to
socio-economic development; diversifying energy sources; intensively
developing renewable energy sources and nuclear energy as well as
bio-fuels to meet socio-economic development demand; and efficiently and
sustainably developing energy sector in parallel with environmental
protection.
According to the Deputy Director General, Vietnam’s
energy demand is forecasted to increase at about 7 percent per annum in
the 2010-2020 period and about 5 percent per annum in the period from
2020 to 2030. To meet the continuously growing demand, Vietnam should
exploit about 19 billion cubic metres of gas per year in the 2015-2025
period; to put into commission the first nuclear power unit of 1,000 MW
by 2020, to raise nuclear power capacity to 4,000 MW by 2025 and 15,000
MW by 2030; as well as to raise renewable energy account of 5 percent by
2020 and 8 percent by 2030 in national power capacity.
Also on the same day, Singapore inked two Memorandums of
Understanding (MoU) with Cambodia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to
strengthen partnerships in the energy sector.
The MoUs will
provide formal frameworks for information exchange and sharing of
experiences between Singapore and the two countries in areas such as
energy efficiency and conservation, regulation of electricity, renewable
energy and liquefied natural gas (LNG). The agreements will also
facilitate collaboration among private sector players to explore
opportunities in the energy sector.
The first project under the
Singapore-Cambodia MoU will involve the training of 60 Cambodian energy
officials in electrical safety systems, frameworks and regulations.
All the above events took place during the International Energy Week held in Singapore from October 28 to November 1.-VNA