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VnEconomy citing news from the Economic Times (India) reports that private power firm Tata Power is looking for a local partner in Viet Nam to build a 1,320 MW thermal power plant. "We are looking for a local partner in Viet Nam, we would like to keep 80 percent of the equity in the project," Tata Power Managing Director Anil Sardana told reporters in New Delhi.

On May 4, in Hanoi, the signing ceremony of the power purchase agreement (PPA) for Song Hau 1 Thermal Power Plant was held between the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PVN) and the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).

The Government Office has consulted ministries and sectors on Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PVN) to transfer Nhon Trach 3 & 4 thermal power projects to PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) for investment.

Prime Minister has accepted the proposal of Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to correct the coal-fired thermal power projects in Adjusted Power Planning VII by adjusting the capacity of An Khanh project (in Bac Giang province with an old name as Luc Nam) from 100 MW to 650 MW and supplementing an independent project (IPP) of 100 MW (2x50 MW) for electricity supplying Duc Giang Chemical Joint-Stock Company (Lao Cai province) without connection with national power system.

The Government has told relevant agencies to consider stopping new coal-fired power plant projects as domestic coal reserves are falling and the country will have to import coal, possibly from 2020, to keep its thermal power plants running.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has required Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to conduct investors of the new power plants – objectives participating in competitive power generation market to complete rapidly necessary conditions for bringing them soon in the competitive electricity wholesale market.

Twelve gas turbines with a combined capacity of nearly 690 megawatts with a total order volume around USD 570 million including long-term service, Siemens has also committed a USD 115 million loan to support the power plants’ construction.

Siemens has signed binding agreements for a substantial expansion of three existing thermal power plants with Ende Andina SAM of Bolivia. These contracts follow a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from November 2015 and were signed in the presence of Bolivia’s President, Evo Morales and Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG.

On 16 July 2015, in Vinh Hai commune, Ninh Hai district and Phuoc Dinh commune, Thuan Nam district, Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) held a ceremony for publishing Decision No. 6070 / QD-BCT of the  Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on adjusting sites of Ninh Thuan 1 and Ninh Thuan 2 Nuclear Power Plants (NPP).

Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) just had a meeting with the representatives of Karpowership Group (Republic of Turkey) to discuss cooperation opportunities between the two sides, in which there was a solution to generate electricity from floating power plants (when the Vietnamese power system will lack local supply).

On March 25, in Binh Thuan, Deputy General Director of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) - Nguyen Tai Anh chaired a conference to "promote the ash and slag sale at EVN's coal-fired power plants".

The PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas) will be a supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the Nhon Trach 3 and 4 power plants under a framework agreement between the firm with the PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power).[Trich luoc nhap]

In order to ensure the highest coal supply for thermal power plants (TPPs) with a maximal generation at the current hot season, the leadership of Vinacomin has directed the subsidiaries to effort coal supply for TPPs at highest level.

The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa is striving to bring the solar power plants in its territory to operation in 2019, according to local authorities.

On January 31, the unit #1 of the Duyen Hai 1 TPP (622.5MW) was successfully synchronized to the National Power System.