Speaking to the EVN staff, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung asked them to focus all resources on the importance of supplying higher quality and more reliable power for socio-economic on goings and the daily use of the people.
As the major State-owned firm in the power sector, EVN was asked to improve its restructuring efforts, thus enhancing its effectiveness and competitiveness.
The Deputy PM also urged the firm to renovate and re-arrange its power generation, distribution, retail and operation systems, as well as the electricity market to ensure the effective functioning of the wholesale power market.
Vietnam's electricity system currently ranks second among 10 Southeast Asian countries and 23rd in the world in terms of capacity, which currently reaches over 54,000 MW.
The national grid has reached out to islands to strategic positions such as Co To island district in the northern province of Quang Ninh, Phu Quoc and Kien Hai in the southern province of Kien Giang and Ly Son in the central province of Quang Ngai, among others via submarine cable systems.
