Why is Vietnam deploying a smart grid and smart metering programme?

Vietnam has been and is deploying a smart grid and smart metering programmes in power system operation and management. Like other smart grid programmes around the world, the two core targets of this programme in Vietnam are improving energy usage efficiency and developing renewable energy resources.

How can Viet Nam become a smarter power system?

This has been a policy challenge for the industry to achieve more substantial progress in smart grids, making the power system not only more modern but also a smarter one for Viet Nam. Regulations for smart appliances capable of adjusting the demand based on supply conditions or electricity tariff.

What is Vietnam – Singapore Smart Energy Solutions JSC (vsses)?

Vietnam – Singapore Smart Energy Solutions JSC (VSSES) is a joint venture between Becamex IDC Corporation (Becamex IDC), Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp), and Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park J.V. Co (VSIP JV).

Does Vietnam need a smart grid roadmap?

The Smart Grid roadmap, therefore, sets a general target for Smart Grid to improve system reliability through demand-side management and energy efficiency measures. The plan, however, needs to be updated as Vietnam has witnessed a significant increase on renewable energy and a number of policy changes.

Does Vietnam have a smart grid index?

Smart grid index in Vietnam and some countries. In 2012, the Government of Vietnam approved a strategy on developing Smart Grid to upgrade the national power transmission system in the context of rapidly increasing electricity demand required by the fast-growing economy.

How a state-run electricity system works in Vietnam?

State-run Electricity of Vietnam and power corporations have come up with a raft of concrete programmes, such as those associated with installing electric power meters and developing a remote metering data collection system, establishing remote control centres or devising pilot programmes on power load adjustment.