Vietnam: a country that must find alternatives to fossil fuels - Vietnam : un pays qui doit trouver des alternatives aux énergies fossiles

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Vietnam: a country that must find alternatives to fossil fuels

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River and water mill - Vietnam
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During the visit to Paris of Nguyen Phu Trong, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam, agreements with EDF were signed on March 27, 2018, to develop the exploitation of its natural gas. An essential source of energy for the country to succeed in its energy transition.

As a developing country, Vietnam is faced with several challenges: reconciling a growing demographic and economy, an energy boom, while fully embracing the race for sustainable energy, in order to cope with climate change and its consequences . For Vietnam is one of the ten countries that suffer the most, with pessimistic forecasts: typhoon upsurges , rising temperatures and rising waters that could make part of the country disappear, especially that of the Mekong deltas.

Currently, the country has 90 million inhabitants and sees its population growth increase by one million inhabitants per year. And the energy needs are felt, with annual growth of 11% per year on average. The government is aware of this problem and asked last year, a report on the energy prospects of the country, handed over to Hanoi on September 20, 2017. A report born of the cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade. and the Danish Ministry of Energy, Energy Supply and Climate. Thomas Egebo, the secretary of state of the latter, said that "based on the macroeconomic forecasts of economic growth and energy needs of the country, this text encourages the government to put in place policies to develop the economy. electricity, whose production is not very polluting, while intensifying the exploitation of renewable energy sources and optimizing energy consumption in the country " .

A transition that goes through natural gas

Until 25 years ago, much of the country was not connected to electricity, compared with only 1% today (in some rural areas and mountainous areas). So much so that in 2020, the demand for electricity will represent 75 GW per year and twice as much in 2030. The government had forecast that this production would come from 56% of coal plants, 8% of nuclear power and 13% of natural gas , but this situation is not inclined to the protection of the environment. "Fossil fuels are becoming increasingly rare and polluting ... The renewable energy development strategy is needed more than ever," says Tran Viet Ngai , president of the Vietnam Energy Association. But for the moment, these energies are not sufficiently exploited, while the Vietnamese National Assembly voted to stop its program of construction of nuclear power plants in November 2016 . The country has only three wind farms, solar energy projects still insufficient (for the 6% of electricity produced by this energy targeted by the government in 2030) and poorly optimized development of the hydropower network ... biomass energy is doing well, accounting for 50% of energy consumption across the country and becoming a priority.

But that was without counting on the large reserves of natural gas in the country, which can limit greenhouse gas emissions, especially since gas turbines are quick and less expensive to set up a power plant. coal, nuclear or renewable energy. In 2013, they accounted for 32.6% of the country's electricity production (and imports). And in the long term, this natural gas of fossil origin, can be replaced by biogas, as reinforcement to the solar and wind parks or to compensate for situations windy or not very sunny. A transition solution certainly, but the most effective, bearing in mind that this fossil gas will be replaced by green gas from methanation or methanation or even give hythane, an innovative fuel, the result of the combination of natural gas with hydrogen. Thus, in the case of Vietnam, if it were opted for an association of natural gas and renewable energies, greenhouse gas emissions would decrease by 25% in 2030 and 50% in 2050.

International agreements for the development of natural gas

This solution seems to materialize, as evidenced by the agreements signed with EDF on March 27, 2018 by Nguyen Phu Trong, the secretary general of the Vietnamese Communist Party, on an official visit to Paris. EDF thus becomes the project manager of the new liquefied gas plant in the country, with an estimated power of 2,000 MW, for 1.5 billion euros. This plant will be built between 2023 and 2028 in Son My, Binh Thuan province, in the south of the country. EDF already operates a combined two-cycle gas power plant with a capacity of 715 MW since 2005, in Phu My, through its subsidiary Mekong Energy Company. For the upcoming one in Son My, EDF will benefit from leadership, with a 37.5% stake in its operation, in partnership with the Japanese groups Sojitz and Kysushu and the Vietnamese Pacific Corporation. "This project supports the energy transition of Vietnam, but also the respect of the Paris Agreements on the climate," said Marianne Laigneau , Executive Director of EDF International.

Other international partnerships have also been signed or are in the process of being signed. We remember a farm biogas program launched in 2003 with the help of the Netherlands, or more recently, on March 24, agreements with Oman in the Arabian Peninsula, to exploit gas natural Vietnamese in the years to come. Proof if it were that the country is really thinking of focusing its energy transition on natural gas, while exploiting the wealth of its renewable energy .

Source: notre-planete.info

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