A wind farm in Thuận Bắc District of Ninh Thuận Province. Vietnam has made positive progress in the past few years in energy transition. - VNA/VNS
BERLIN (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam will soon lead Southeast Asia in renewable energy development, Germany’s Energiezukunft news outlet highlighted in a recent article, describing the country’s energy transition as very impressive.
Vetnam is experiencing a solar boom, with 11.6GW of power of this kind added to the national grid last year, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Only 105MW of solar electricity was installed in the country in 2018, and the figure rose to 5GW only a year later, and even to 16.5GW in 2020, the article said, adding this is a considerable increase compared to other nations at the same time.
Hải Vân Pass. VNA/VNS
HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): The Hải Vân Pass in the central Vietnamese coastal city of Danang has been named among the 10 most beautiful drives in the world by renowned US magazine Travel + Leisure.
The Pentagon Motor Group (PMG)’s Instagram data analysis was used to compile the list.
PMG analysed more than 7 million Instagram hashtags to find the world’s most stunning routes and divided the number of images of selected routes by their length.
With a length of 20km and 2,686 pictures per km, the Hải Vân Pass came fourth in the list, behind the Great Ocean Road (Australia), Big Sur (California), and Jebel Hafeet (United Arab Emirates).
Inside the underground storage facility. Photo tuoitre.vn
BARIA- VUNG TAU: A US$1.35 billion underground storage facility for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia with a huge storage capacity of 240,000 tonnes, is expected to soon become operational in the Mekong Delta province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu.
As part of a polypropylene plant project by the South Korean-funded Hyosung Vina Chemicals company, the storage cavern has been built at a depth of between more than 100m to nearly 200m above sea level, with 95 per cent of its workload completed.
Engineer Phạm Thị Hồng, an operator of the facility, said the facility lies under a layer of hard rock and is designed in an egg-shaped form so the pressure is distributed evenly. Meanwhile, its other technical factors will keep LPG from leaking out, she added.
Two years after it came into effect, Vietnam posted improved exports to many CPTPP member countries in the region. File Photo
HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Two years after it came into effect, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has helped Vietnam boost its exports and open the door to trade in the Americas, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Đỗ Thắng Hải told a seminar in Hanoi on Tuesday (April 27).
With the theme CPTPP - Opportunities for Vietnam s Exports to American Markets , the deputy minister told the gathering that economic and trade ties between Vietnam and the Americas have grown robustly in recent years.
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