Vietnam Leads Asia with Solar Power

Vietnam grapples with an unexpected surge in solar power

The Economist Jan 2020 - Excerpts

"The energy-hungry country may need fewer coal-fired plants than it thought

Solar power played almost no part in Vietnam’s energy mix in 2017.

To speed the technology’s adoption, the government offered that year to pay suppliers a generous $0.09 for every kilowatt-hour produced by big solar farms, but only if they started operations within the following two years.

It expected some 850mw of capacity to be installed.

Instead, by the end of 2019 the country found itself with 5 gigawatts—more than Australia, with an economy almost six times the size."

I am thinking loud: We need similar jump start in our residential solar installations.