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Vietnam’s Leaders Drive Energy Reform

Sharp turn away from coal toward sustainable energy

Aug 11, 2020
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By: David Brown

This story is about a remarkable reorientation of Vietnam’s power development plans that flows from a top-level decision to implement fundamental reforms, moving away from both the command economy and coal to market forces and clean energy.

The energy sector – effectively three big state-owned companies and counterparts in the Ministry of …

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