One step forward, two steps back: Vietnam's short-sighted energy vision By Nguyen Dang Anh Thi  April 1, 2021 | 07:50 am GMT+7 Vietnam needs to learn the right lessons from Germany's experience – going from protests against renewable energy to becoming one of the top five nations in clean power. Nguyen Dang Anh Thi I choose to talk about Germany because most of the feed-in-tariff policies for Vietnam's renewable energy have been designed using the German model and built with consultation from the Deutshe Gesellschaftür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) or German Corporation for International Cooperation, an agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation.