Nghe An strives to save 5 - 7% of total energy consumption in the period 2021 - 2025

Attending the conference were comrade Hoang Van Tam - Director of the Department.Industry and Trade, representatives of departments, branches, Nghe An Electricity, representatives of districts, cities and towns in the province. Photo: Quang An

The program of using energy economically and efficiently in Nghe An in the period of 2016 - 2020 has achieved many positive results. Regarding propaganda, dissemination and raising awareness for the community, the Energy Conservation Center - Department of Industry and Trade has coordinated withNghe An NewspaperNghe An Radio and Television Station and press agencies publish many topics, news, and propaganda articles, widely disseminated to the people.

Mr. Cao Thanh Bao - Principal of Huynh Thuc Khang High School presents solutions to save electricity in schools. Photo: Quang An

The Department of Industry and Trade has also organized responses to the annual Earth Hour Campaign; organized campaigns to promote the use of energy economically and efficiently; Energy Saving Competitions in the Industry and Trade sector; dozens of Energy Saving Competitions for households in wards and communes; "Energy Saving in Schools" Competitions in districts, cities and towns; provided training on energy knowledge and applied energy saving solutions for ward and commune officials, association members and households...

Propagating and guiding households to use renewable energy, install energy-saving devices in the home such as: Installing solar water heaters, rooftop solar power, using biogas tanks... As of October 2020, the whole province has 540 investors installing rooftop solar power, with a total capacity of 13,698 kWp; Grid connection: 2,415,608 kWh.

Leaders of Nghe An Electricity spoke at the conference. Photo: Quang An

Propaganda work on using energy economically and efficiently in buildings and agencies, offices, production, business and services, transportation activities, agricultural production... has also achieved many positive results.

Although awareness of the program has had many positive changes, the results achieved still have some shortcomings, the funding for the program is still too little, there is still a situation of wasteful energy use, especially in some agencies and units using the State budget, public lighting, restaurants, hotels and advertising services. A part of the people do not fully understand the importance ofenergy saving...

Comrade Hoang Van Tam - Director of the Department of Industry and Trade directly answered the delegates' opinions. Photo: Quang An

In the period of 2021 - 2025, the program of using energy economically and efficiently in Nghe An has set specific goals to strive to achieve. Strive to save 5 - 7% of total energy consumption in the period from 2021 to 2025; Reduce power loss to less than 6.5%; 70% of industrial parks and 50% of industrial clusters have access to and apply the solutions of the program; 100% of districts, cities and towns develop plans to implement the program locally; Popularize the rooftop solar power model for agencies, offices and schools in Nghe An province...

At the conference, representatives of districts, cities, towns and large electricity consuming enterprises presented papers, focusing on the current status of energy consumption and energy saving solutions in the coming time.

The opinions and questions of the delegates were noted by the leaders of the Department of Industry and Trade and directly answered for the units. At the same time, the Department of Industry and Trade also hopes that agencies, businesses and units will continue to contribute initiatives and solutions so that energy saving work in the province will be effectively implemented in the coming years.

Collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements received Certificates of Merit from the People's Committee of Nghe An province. Photo: Quang An

On this occasion, 5 collectives and 5 individuals with outstanding achievements in energy saving work in the period 2016 - 2020 received Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee.