Mongabay.comAnalysis by David Brown on 6 August 2020

• Vietnam’s Communist Party leadership has instituted a top-down reform of the country’s electricity sector in response to the need to shift away from coal and its growing list of associated problems.
• The country’s new energy strategy puts greater emphasis on renewables, including wind and solar, abandoning a decade-long commitment to investing in and subsidizing coal.
• The move is also helped by recent technological developments that have made generating renewable power at scale more economically feasible than ever.

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