VIETNAM: Dak Nong - Results

Provincial study of renewable energies potentials

RESIREA aims at defining Decentralized Rural Electrification programmes, by promoting the renewable energies potentials available in Dak Nong: biomass energy, hydropower, solar.

As a result, detailed information and knowledge of the local available renewable energy potential is necessary, to propose suitable and adapted projects.

Yet, unlike Kampong Thom and Oudomxay provinces, the rural electrification rate in Dak Nong province is high and the electricity grid is expanding quickly.

As a result, since RESIREA aims at defining off-grid rural electrification programmes, the objective is to identify households or groups of households who are not connected to the grid, nor included in a grid extension plan. This targeted population has been identified in the frame of RESIREA programme “Identification of priority villages”.

The households remaining without electricity today are mostly scattered in the fields and far away from the village center. Considering this specific configuration, centralized options with renewable energy sources supplying local mini-grid in the villages are not adapted.

Thus, to promote the access to energy in these places with renewable energies sources, it is necessary to consider in priority individual systems, like Solar Home Systems or pico-hydro systems.

To know more about the preliminary results of the study, click here.

To download the complete report describing the solar energy potential, click here.