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Developing a research agenda to ensure Vietnam’s secure sustainable and resilient energy supply
Date: 24/05/2017

On May 15th, in Can Tho City, Can Tho University in collaboration with University of Salford, UK held a workshop on “Developing a Research Agenda to Ensure Vietnam’s Secure Sustainable and Resilient Energy Supply” with the sponsor of Newton fund, British Council. The workshop attracted more than 30 domestic and foreign scientists in the fields of environment, information technology and energy to find the solution to develop and provide sustainable energy sources for Mekong Delta in particular and for Vietnam in general. At the workshop, the scientists pointed out some problems in management and developing of energy resources in Vietnam. Presently, Vietnam is almost exploiting and using energy from non- renewable fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and even exporting with low price. This will cause great damage to the national resources not only at present but also in later generations. Moreover, this causes environmental pollution as greenhouse effect to make the earth be warmer, ice melting to cause floods and so on. Instead, we can completely exploit and use the renewable resources being friendly with the environment, such as solar, wind, rain, tides, trees, algae and geothermal energy. These are abundant in the tropical region like in Vietnam but how to use them effectively needs the application of advanced technology. From that reality, researchers from Salford proposed a long term strategy with Vietnamese researchers in application modern technology to exploit the renewable resources in order to become secure sustainable and resilient energy. The cooperation will be specialized by exchanging research lecturers and international students among the research institutes of Can Tho University and Salford University.
Workshop on Developing a Research Agenda to Ensure Vietnam’s Secure Sustainable and Resilient Energy Supply

Mr. Tran Ha Dong Quan, representative of Korea Viet Nam Incubator Park (KVIP), said that the enterprises in KVIP have had some first achievements, such as applying some useful modern technology in agriculture to reduce the environmental impact. Specifically, the KVIP had a technology to convert domestic wastes into organic fertilizer instead of burning them out as the old one. This helps farmers save money in buying fertilizers, reduce the harmfulness caused by chemical fertilizers. Also, the government will save the cost for wastes treatment as well as reduce CO2 when burning as the old one. In addition, the enterprises in the KVIP use energy saving lighting systems by installing power reversers instead of cold compressors aimed at minimizing energy wastage in the process of production.

Scientists also refer to the application of information technology into the automated production process, especially in farming, harvesting of agricultural and aquatic products following the Global GAP standards.  The parameters of weather, soil quality, developing circles of infant plants are monitored closely by computer systems in which data will be collected and analyzed automatically to propose the watering, the harvest and report to the smart phones of the leaders of the enterprises. This technology helps the enterprises reduce many things, such as labor costs, risk of changeable weather, and the inconsistency in products bringing more economic benefits in farming.


Source: VNS. Translated by Minh Loan


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