ECONOMIC Potential of Renewable Energy in Vietnam's Power Sector
A bottom-up Integrated Resource Planning model is used to examine the economic potential of renewable energy in Vietnam’s power sector. In a baseline scenario without renewables, coal provides 44% of electricity generated from 2010 to 2030. The use of renewables could reduce that figure to 39%, as well as decrease the sector’s cumulative emission of CO2 by 8%, SO2 by 3%, and NOx by 4%. In addition,renewables could avoid installing 4.4GW in fossil fuel generating capacity, conserve domestic coal,decrease coal and gases imports, improving energy independence and security. Wind could become cost-competitive assuming high but plausible on fossil fuel prices, if the cost of the technology falls to 900 US$/kW.
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| Date of creation: | 20 Oct 2008 |
| Publication status: | Published in Energy Policy 5.37(2009): pp. 1601-1613 |
| Handle: | RePEc:pra:mprapa:21173 |
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