Nguyen Duc Cuong, director of the Centre for Renewal Energy and Clean Development Mechanism, says the Vietnamese government is looking to renewable energy sources to alleviate power shortages in the country.

Vietnam’s economy is forecast to grow rapidly from a gross domestic product of $93.4bn in 2009 to $436bn by 2025.

The Southeast Asian state is eyeing to install 1GW to 2GW of onshore wind farm capacity by 2025, according to Nguyen Duc Cuong, director of the Centre for Renewal Energy and Clean Development Mechanism.

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