{"id":577455,"date":"2023-05-18T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T04:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=577455"},"modified":"2023-05-18T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T05:15:16","slug":"vietnam-govt-approves-plan-to-cut-power-output-from-coal-fired-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vietnam-govt-approves-plan-to-cut-power-output-from-coal-fired-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam govt approves plan to cut power output from coal-fired plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vietnamese government has approved a plan that needs $134.7 billion to reduce coal-fired electricity generation and improve the country&#8217;s power grid by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is aimed at ensuring Vietnam&#8217;s energy security as the country is set to maintain an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 7 per cent until 2030 while shifting toward carbon neutrality by 2050, reports Xinhua news agency citing local media.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, coal-fired power output would drop to 20 per cent of power supply by 2030 from almost half now while the share of renewable energy in the country&#8217;s power mix would be raised to between 67.5 and 71.5 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vietnamese government has approved a plan that needs $134.7 billion to reduce coal-fired electricity generation and improve the country&#8217;s power grid by 2030. The plan is aimed at ensuring Vietnam&#8217;s energy security as the country is set to maintain an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 7 per cent until 2030 while shifting toward carbon neutrality by 2050, reports Xinhua news agency citing local media. Under the plan, coal-fired power output would drop to 20 per cent of power supply by 2030 from almost half now while the share of renewable energy in the country&#8217;s power mix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}