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Update news coal-fired plants
The Hoa Phat-Dung Quat Steel JSC in Dung Quat Economic Zone in Quang Ngai province has received approval from MONRE to dump 15 million cubic meters of sludge at sea.
VietNamNet Bridge - Two out of four electricity generation units at the Quang Ninh Thermopower Plant have halted operation since November 17 because of a shortage of coal supply.
Forty-two percent of coal-fired thermal power projects in the world are in South East Asia. While the use of coal-fired plants is declining globally, Vietnam has been expanding the number of plants.
VietNamNet Bridge - Experts are calling her the immediate stop of construction of new coal-fired plants in the Mekong Delta.
Truong Duy Nghia, chair of the Vietnam Association of Science & Technology, says the country will be able to pursue renewable energy as a main source of power only when the country becomes wealthy.