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Information from the Vietnam Coal - Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) showed that the Vinacomin delegation led by General Director Dang Thanh Hai has participated in the 2018 Clean Coal Conference in Tokyo. This is the annual international conference organized by the Japan Coal Energy Center (JCOAL).

Japan’s coal enterprises are ready to transfer clean coal technology to Vietnam’s firms to reduce emissions and enhance efficiency in the electricity sector, said Noboru Aoki, head of the environment division at New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation.

Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) informs that the clean coal production approximately reached 14 million tons in the 4 months of the year, accounting a 2.9% improvement on last year period production. However, the production in April was only 3.6 million tons, down 4.2% compared to the same period of the year.

On 23/12/2020, in Ho Chi Minh City, under the direction of the Office of the National Steering Committee for Electricity Development, the Science Council of Vietnam Energy Magazine organized the “First Vietnam Clean Energy Forum and Summurising the vote of the Leading clean energy enterprises in Vietnam 2020.

On May 9, Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan, General Director and Mission of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and worked with Vinacomin leaders in Hanoi and Coal Northeast Corporation (CNC) in Quang Ninh, on coal supply for power generation, especially in the peak hot months of 2023.

On March 3, 2023, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), Minister Nguyen Hong Dien chaired a meeting with the leaders of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN), and Vietnam National Coal - Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (TKV), Power Generation 1, Power Generation 2, Power Generation- 3 Joint Stock Company, TKV Power Company, PVN Power Company, Northeast Coal Corporation; Ninh Binh Fertilizer Single Company Limited, Ha Bac Fertilizer and Chemical Joint Stock company and a number of the coal-fired thermal power plants on the coal supply and coal import for electricity and nitrogen fertilizer production.

At the conference to review the plans in 2016 of Ministry of Resources and Environment, the Vietnam Geology and Mineral Department informed “At present, there have been identified 55 coal strata placed in 5 stratum groups from the surface to the depth of 1200 meters in mainland part of the Red River coal basin”.

Vietnam National Coal and Minerals Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin) speeds up to perfrm the coal export contracts to rapidly release high-quality coal dust and lump coal in stock.

The Minister of Industry and Trade has just issued a Decision approving the coal price framework and electricity generation price framework in 2023. Accordingly, the coal price is 1,808,000 VND/ton, the electricity generation price framework for coal-fired power plants is 0 - 1,559.70 VND/kWh and the electricity generation price range for hydropower plants is 0 - 1,110 VND/kWh (the above price framework does not include value added tax (VAT) and other related taxes and costs).

A conference to agree and sign a cooperation agreement between Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), South East Coal Trading Company (SECTC – Dong Bac Corporation) and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), on long-term coal supply for Thermal power plants using anthracite coal in EVN has just taken place in Hanoi.

On July 29, 2015, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Industry (MoIT) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) signed an Intentional Letter on the clean energy development and energy efficiency to promote the sustainable law emission development in Vietnam.

On April 07, 2022, in Hanoi, with the participation of the Scientific-Technologic and Environmental Committee of Vietnam Assembly, State Bank, Climate Change Department- Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment (MNRE), Institute of Energy- Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), Vietnam and International Organizations and Enterprises… Scientific Council of Vietnam Energy Review and Vietnam Energy Information Center organize the Vietnam Clean Energy Forum (the Second) with the subject: "Towards Net Carbon –the Mechanisms, Policies, Technologies and Finance for the Solar, Wind and Gas power projects”.

On September 6, 2016 on the occasion of the state visit to Vietnam, French President François Hollande met for a talk with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang. At the meeting, French President François Hollande expressed the wish to cooperate with Vietnam in renewable and nuclear energy development.

Recently, in Hanoi, PetroVietnam Power Corporation - JSC (PV Power) together with IB Global and Vietnam IDG Capital signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a strategic cooperation relationship between PV Power and the Vietnam Clean Energy Fund after its establishment. This is a new opportunity for PV Power to participate in clean energy projects.

According to a survey of World Bank (WB) in 111 nations, Vietnam belongs to the group of leading countries in clean energy.