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Southeast Asia, which possesses rich solar and wind power resources, is steadily decarbonizing its energy sources and phasing out reliance on coal power. Substantial investments penetrate renewable energy infrastructure, especially large-scale projects.

The Prime Minister has just approved the Vietnam Renewable Energy Development Strategy to 2030, outlook up to 2050.

On 28th March 2014, the International scientific conference on the development of Vietnam’s energy market held in Ha Noi by Vietnam Energy Association (VEA).

The October 27-28 Solar Show Vietnam 2022, which was held in the Adora center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, successfully completed. Exhibitors on hand were given a visual feast of the intelligent hybrid inverters by Solis, one of the world’s largest and most experienced solar inverter manufacturers in the world, offering professional solutions for the development of photovoltaic (PV) in Vietnam.

The Government Office issued Announcement No. 40/TB-VPCP on the conclusion of the Prime Minister - Head of the National Steering Committee at the second meeting of the National Steering Committee to implement commitments of Vietnam at 26thconference of the Participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) which entered into force last August is opening plenty of opportunities for Vietnam and Sweden to promote economic cooperation and investment in a number of fields, including renewable energy, Swedish Ambassador to Vietnam Ann Mawe told Vietnam Economic News.

On September 17, 2019, in Hanoi, Vietnam Sustainable Energy Alliance (VSEA), Vietnam Climate Action Alliance (VCCA) and Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) organized the 2019 Vietnam renewable energy Week.

Although the competitive power generation market has operated quite smoothly, it is not an easy job to move to a competitive power trading market. Foreign experts supposed that Vietnam will still have much work to do to have a complete competitive power trading market after 2020.

In order to meet the increasing market demand from power plants, industrial and civil customers, while domestic gas sources are on the decline, the import of LNG to make up for the shortfall The shortfall is a necessary solution to ensure national energy security and serve the country's development.

According to News Agency of Vietnam (VNA) in Tokyo, the Japanese Saibu Gas Company (Saibu Gas) has announced its decision to invest in a subsidiary of Vietnam Gas Corporation (PV GAS).

The conference “Supporting Renewable Energy development and Sharing experience between France and Vietnam" with participation of the 7 French enterprises held on May, 20.  This is an opportunity for Vietnam get more new co-operations on renewable energy development.

On December 11, 2017, in Hanoi at the working meeting on renewable energy (RE) development between Mr. Tran Tuan Anh, the Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and Mr. Ousmane Dione, the National Director of the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam, Mr. Ousmane Dione asked Vietnam to modify the power purchase agreement (PPA) on RE in accordance with the most common international practice under the neutral jurisdiction.

On April 1st, in Lima the capital of Republic of Peru, Petrovietnam Exploration and Production Corporation (PVEP) and Peru Petroleum Corporation (Perenco) held a valve opening ceremony for sale of the first commercial oil flow from Lot 67 in Peru.

Talisman Energy Inc (Canada) is a global upstream oil and gas company, first entered Vietnam in 2001 through an acquisition that secured positions in the PM3-CAA (Commercial Arrangement Area) and Block 46-Cai Nuoc. During its more than 10 years operating Up to end of 2012, Talisman has invested over 3.0 billion USD in its various projects in Vietnam, As at end of 2012, Talisman has generated revenues of close to 2 billion USD for Vietnam and contributed significantly to develop many social projects to promote education, traffic safety, environment and to empower communities in many cities and provinces of Vietnam. Vietnam Energy Review’s Reporter has an interview with Mr. Rob Mills - Vive President double as a Country Manager of Talisman Vietnam.

According to the latest statistics from Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), Vietnam has 82 solar power plants connect to power network, with total 4464 MW capacity, and it accounts about 8.28% in Vietnam electricity supply mix, which is far more than 1000MW target setting for 2020.