World-class wind, $15.5 billion pledged, every major developer at the table, and not a single offshore turbine: the rules were never written.
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Petrovietnam: From Offshore Oil to the LNG Import Age
Vietnam’s national oil company ran out of easy oil, lost its chairman to prison, and reinvented itself as the state’s LNG, power and nuclear contractor.
PDP8: Vietnam’s Plan to Double Its Grid Without Coal
Vietnam’s power plan wants to double the grid by 2030 without new coal, and almost every dollar has to come from someone other than the state.
The Solar Rush: How a Feed-in Tariff Built 16 GW in Two Years and Then Stalled
A 9.35-cent tariff turned Vietnam into Southeast Asia’s solar leader in two years; the grid, the inspectors and EVN then took it apart.
EVN: The Monopoly That Keeps the Lights On and Loses Money Doing It
Vietnam’s state utility buys every kilowatt-hour, sets nothing, and lost nearly $2 billion in two years keeping factories cheap.
