New solar cheaper than coal in Vietnam within three years

A study of the relative costs of generation using coal and PV has focused on Vietnam as a case study as the nation is dependent on costly imports of seaborne coal. Analysts paint a straightforward picture explaining why a planned 32 GW new coal pipeline should be shelved.Developing new solar power generation capacity could be cheaper than running existing coal-fired power plants in Vietnam as early as 2022, according to a study by financial thinktank the Carbon Tracker Initiative. The London-based not-for-profit group posited that timescale as one of three scenarios it examined to explain why ...

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