The country's most populated city has adopted
a programme to save power and promote the use of renewable and environmentally
friendly energies.
The HCM
City People's Committee last week approved Green Energy, which eventually aims
to save 2 per cent of electricity annually from 2015.
The
target for this year is 1.2 per cent, which translates into 400 million kWh in
a city with a population of over 8 million.
By 2015
more than 1 per cent of the city's total consumption, or 48MW, is expected to
be provided by new and renewable energies.
To
promote the development of renewable and environmentally friendly energies, the
programme seeks to educate people about the importance of green energy and
raise public awareness of energy efficiency.
The
city, which has 150-300 hours of sunshine a month, has yet to take full
advantage of its solar energy potential, with renewable energy generally
failing to attract investments and the city lacking funds.
The
generation of renewable energy is a meagre 3MW, which is produced by a plant
fuelled by garbage.
Around
50,000 houses are built and renovated every year but only around 3,400 of them
have solar water heaters installed.
The
city plans to increase by 3 per cent every year the number of hotels, houses,
and office buildings that use these heaters.
It also
seeks to use advanced technologies to reduce the energy consumed by equipment
and vehicles, and improve research in renewable and clean energies.
Since
2007 the southern commercial hub has taken many measures to improve energy
efficiency, resulting in savings of more than 1 trillion kWh.
Last
year was the best, with more than 391 million kWh saved.
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