Specifically, the plan aims to improve power quality and power supply reliability, contribute to environmental protection and socio-economic development of the Capital, and improve the overall economic efficiency of the connected power system with sustainable development, successfully implementing the goal of reducing net emissions to "zero" by 2050, developing green energy facilities following the City's criteria.
To achieve the set goals, EVNHANOI has built many energy-use solutions specifically for different customer groups. For customers doing commercial and service businesses, supermarkets, and shopping centers, the commercial centers shall sign a commitment to reduce 50% of outdoor decorative advertising lighting capacity during peak evening hours.
Rooftop solar power system in Hanoi.
For groups of administrative and public service units that receive state budget capital, public offices, office buildings, hospitals, and schools, strive to annually save at least 5% of total power consumption in the year. Agency and school buildings should take advantage and mobilize resources to install and use rooftop solar power systems to reduce the power consumption rate from the National electricity system. Every month, power companies shall make statistics on the power consumption of customers in the above groups. If it increases by 10% or more compared to that of the same period last year, they will recommend customers about it.
Public lighting systems, advertising lights, outdoor decorations, and traffic lighting will apply current management solutions, regulations, and technical standards in public lighting, replacing decorative lights, lighting, advertising lights with energy-saving lights, using high-performance lighting equipment, and integrating new energy and renewable energy. During the period 2020-2025, this system shall ensure a minimum saving of 20% of total power consumption for the lighting, advertising, and decoration activities as mentioned above.
Production customers and management boards of industrial zones and clusters are required to ensure proper use of power capacity and load charts signed in the power purchase contract, load regulation, and shifting production adjustment, reduce peak hour capacity, minimize the mobilization of equipment and machinery with large power consumption during peak hours, and minimize equipment operating without load. Manufacturing enterprises and energy-using establishments with power consumption of 01 million kWh/year or more according to the Prime Minister's Decision shall ensure to save at least 2% of power consumption per unit of product every year and shall strictly comply with the provisions of the Law on Economical and Efficient Use of Energy and related guiding documents.
EVNHANOI has also focused on raising awareness of electricity customers in managing electricity demand and economically and effectively using power; gradually expanding the number of customers participating in the National Program on Demand Side Management (DSM) to domestic electricity users; Step by step encourage customers to register to participate in Response Demand (DR) programs.
EVNHANOI recommends that customers use power economically and effectively