AN GIANG — Néang Sốt, 29, lives on the side of a dirty road near the forest in a makeshift house erected from steel frames with her four children in An Tức Commune, southern An Giang Province. Contact online >>
AN GIANG — Néang Sốt, 29, lives on the side of a dirty road near the forest in a makeshift house erected from steel frames with her four children in An Tức Commune, southern An Giang Province.
In most parts of Việt Nam where reliable supply of electricity is taken for granted, people can charge their phone almost anywhere, anytime, whether at home, supermarkets or restaurants.
According to the state-owned Vietnam Power Group, the total installed capacity of solar power in Việt Nam has reached 19,400 MWp, accounting for about 25 per cent of the total installed capacity of the national power system.
The total solar power generation output in 2020 alone was 10.6 billion kWh, accounting for about 4.3 per cent of the total electricity output of the national power system.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade set the target to provide 21,000 households with electricity from renewable energy in 2016-2020, however, the target fell short with only617 households having access to solar electricity under the ministry''s scheme as of 2020.
"The investment for renewable energy is much lower than for grid and suitable for areas where locals use a small amount of electricity," said Lưu Tùng Giang, deputy head of the Division of Grid and Rural Electricity under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
However there are difficulties in managing the panels if these are installed in rural areas, using state funds, he said, adding that these will be treated as state property and managed by the local commune or district. Meanwhile, there isn''t any policy related to this, he said.
While the authorities are still struggling with the management scheme, as many as 871,263 households in 2,197 communes across Việt Nam live either without electricity or with a disrupted, unstable source of power.
Aware that it will take a long time and an unaffordable sum of money to have the grid in this remote, sparsely populated area, Sốt spent VNĐ1.5 million ($65) to buy a solar panel last year.
She said: "Solar energy has made my life a lot easier. Beforewe could hardly do anything under the dim light of kerosene lamps at night, but now everything is more convenient with electricity,"
Now her family doesn''t have to put up with the petroleum-like odour of kerosene and she can spend the night time playing with her kids, help the eldest daughter with homework, surf the Internet and have video calls with her husband.
The initiative to bring solar energy panels to off-grid communities in An Giang is implemented by Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID), a Vietnamese non-for-profit organisation in cooperation with the province''s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
With more than 450,000 Euros, mostly funded by Bread for the World, the project has been implemented in four communes of An Hảo, Châu Lăng, An Tức and Ô Lâm in the two districts of Tri Tôn and Tịnh Biên since 2019, according to Nguyễn Thị Hà, project manager of GreenID.
These localities are chosen as the number of households living without electricity here is still high and they are mostly poor with average income of VNĐ10-13 million ($435-565) a year, who can hardly afford the grid electricity, she said.
In each commune, energy teams were created made up of local residents. These teams will help raise awareness about the benefits of solar panels, look for solar panel providers, install systems and carry out maintenance work.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which delayed some of its activities and events, the project has achieved the target of providing solar panels for more than 500 householdswith the total capacity of 1,500kWp by the end of 2020.
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