Hanoi, May 29 (Prensa Latina) The sweltering heat that Vietnam has been suffering in recent days caused for the first time in history the daily electricity consumption in the country exceeded one billion kilowatts/hour, the National Load Dispatch Center said today.
Due to intense heat waves, the electricity consumption across the country reached a new record of 1.001.9 billion kWh on May 28, surpassing the 1 billion kWh mark for the first time in history.