Nearly 20,000 rooftop solar power projects installed
Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has announced that nearly 20,000 rooftop solar power projects with a combined capacity of 541.66 MWp were installed nationwide in the past seven months.
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has announced thatnearly 20,000 rooftop solar power projects with a combined capacity of 541.66MWp were installed nationwide in the past seven months.
So far, more than 41,180 of such have been put into operationthroughout the country with a total capacity of 925.8 MWp.
In January-July, the company produced and imported 142.47 billionkWh, up 2.09 percent against the same period last year, of which hydropower was29.22 billion kWh (down 20.52 percent), coal thermal power 80.87 billion kWh(up 14.54 percent), gas turbines 22.4 billion kWh (down 15.36 percent), oilthermal power 1.03 billion kWh (up 33.11 percent), and renewable energy (windpower, solar power, and biomass power) 6.33 billion kWh.
The EVN reported that in the seven-month period, the commercial electricityrose 2.3 percent to 122.69 billion kWh.
It also launched the construction of 81 electricity works andcompleted the connection of 63 others to the national power grid./.
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Illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
