The Hoa Binh Power Corporation (PC Hoa Binh) has applied synchronous measures to gear up for the coming summer season when power consumption demand surge may cause a risk of power supply disruption.
Workers of PC Hoa Binh instruct locals to apply power saving
measures during hot season.
Vice Director of PC Hoa Binh Nguyen The Hung said that in 2023, the Northern
Power Corporation in general and PC Hoa Binh in particular faced many
difficulties and challenges due to extreme weather conditions with prolonged
heat. Power demand surge in May and June last year led to a power shortage in
the north, he noted.
He said that last year, PC Hoa Binh’s commercial electricity output reached
1,319 billion kWh, up 8.8% compared to 2022, which was a high growth rate
compared to the general average of the Northern Power Corporation.
This year, the weather situation is forecast to continue to develop
complicatedly with the heat coming earlier and the temperature predicted to
increase higher than the average level in previous years. Therefore, the
electricity supply is likely to be greatly affected, especially in the Northern
region.
According to PC Hoa Binh's forecast, commercial electricity output in 2024 will
reach 1,414 billion kWh, an increase of 7.2% compared to 2023. The results of
the first quarter of 2024 were 306.52 million kWh, a rise of 9.1% compared to
2023.
In order to ensure safe and stable electricity supply during the hot season,
right from the beginning of 2024, Hoa Binh PC has deployed many synchronous
solutions, including speeding up major construction and repairing projects,
building power supply scenarios and non-commercial demand response (DR) plans.
The company has established a working group and supporting department to
implement the electricity demand management programme.
Hung said that one of the important solutions is strengthening communications
to encourage power saving efforts and call for large-scale customers to engage
in demand response (DR) programmes, and switching production hours during the
hot season.
Accordingly, PC Hoa Binh has sent requests to customers with consumption from 1
million kWh per year, asking for their coordination.
As of the end of the first quarter of 2024, the firm had signed agreements with
25,000 large-scale customers in power saving, along with 93 major customers in
DR implementation with total DR capacity of 35.13 MW.
The firm also reached agreements with 50 customers to mobilise diesel
generators with a capacity of 100 kW or more each to support in generating
electricity when the shortage of system's peak capacity occurs.
With these solutions, PC Hoa Binh has been ready to ensure power supply in the
whole hot season, meeting the demand for electricity for production and daily
activities of customers across the province.
According to data from the Hoa Binh Provincial Party Committee, the industrial production index for the first six months of 2025 is estimated to have increased by 20% compared to the same period last year. This marks the highest year-on-year growth rate for this period since 2020.
In the first six months of 2025, Hoa Binh province’s export turnover was estimated at 1.145 billion USD, marking an 18.11% increase compared to the same period in 2024. Import turnover was estimated at $ 804 million, a 17.15% increase, which helped the province maintain a positive trade balance.
The lives of the ethnic minority farmers in Tan Lac district have gradually improved thanks to the new directions in agricultural production. This is a testament to the collective strength fostered through the professional associations and groups implemented by various levels of the district’s Farmers’ Union.
With the motto the "product quality comes first,” after nearly one year of establishment and operation, Muong village’s Clean Food Agricultural and Commercial Cooperative, located in Cau Hamlet, Hung Son Commune (Kim Boi district), has launched reputable, high-quality agricultural products to the market that are well-received by consumers. The products such as Muong village’s pork sausage, salt-cured chicken, and salt-cured pork hocks have gradually carved out a place in the market and they are on the path to obtaining the OCOP certification.
In the past, the phrase "bumper harvest, rock-bottom prices" was a familiar refrain for Vietnamese farmers engaged in fragmented, small-scale agriculture. But today, a new spirit is emerging across rural areas of Hoa Binh province - one of collaboration, organisation, and collective economic models that provide a stable foundation for production.
Maintaining growing area codes and packing facility codes in accordance with regulations is a mandatory requirement for agricultural products to be eligible for export. Recently, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Hoa Binh province has intensified technical supervision of designated farming areas and packing facilities to safeguard the "green passport" that enables its products to access international markets.
