“SOMETHING UNIQUE”<\/p>\n
The project is also key to Vietnam reaching net-zero emissions targets by 2050, according to Ninh Xuan Hiep, an official at EVN\u2019s National Power Transmission Corporation.<\/p>\n
He said that by 2030, Laos imports would equal nearly 10 per cent of Vietnam\u2019s total installed capacity – its maximum possible production.<\/p>\n
Monsoon Wind plans to boost capacity by 1,000 megawatts and is working to ensure some of this additional power is used inside Laos, according to general manager Narut Boakajorn.<\/p>\n
\u201cLaos has so much natural resources\u201d – wind, hydro and solar, Narut said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNot many countries have all the good renewable energy in the same place. Laos has something unique.\u201d<\/p>\n
The government was set to reap US$180 million over the 25-year contract period, including taxes and community development and environmental protection funds, Narut added.<\/p>\n
He insisted nobody was forced to relocate because of the project, although public dissent is severely restricted in communist Laos.<\/p>\n
He said 1,600 grievances logged \u2013 mainly from farmers requesting compensation for construction impacts on their crops – were resolved.<\/p>\n
Farmer Phonekhan Sengsopha, 23, said he was proud that electricity produced in his country was being sent to its neighbour, also a communist nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Vietnam and Laos are like brothers. They help one another.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“SOMETHING UNIQUE” The project is also key to Vietnam reaching net-zero emissions targets by 2050, according to Ninh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,151447,141,49396],"class_list":["post-663809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-laos","tag-science","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}