Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Hồng Diên said accurate forecasts, careful preparations and flexible operations are needed to ensure adequate supply of electricity in 2025.
Electricity demand is growing so fast that insiders believe it would outstrip domestic supply in the short term, leading to a shortage of 27.7 billion kWh by 2025.
National electricity demand is expected to increase by 8.5 per cent a year until 2025 and 7 per cent until 2030, making Viet Nam an attractive market for foreign energy investors.
More than 180 exhibitors from 22 countries and territories will display their latest products and services at the Electric & Power Vietnam, an international power generation, transmission, distribution and renewable energy exhibition, in HCM City next month.
The domestic coal supply still meets the demand, but
the country will have to import coal from 2016, according to the Viet
Nam National Coal and Mineral Industries Holding Corporation.