Tien Giang promotes energy saving

04/12/2014

To encourage agencies, organizations and people to widely use energy saving devices and solutions, Tien Giang province has built many pilot models, supported energy saving solutions in various areas such as office lighting, public lighting, households, and application in intensive crops.

According to Mr. Vo Huu Thien, Deputy Director of Energy Saving Centre (Department of Industry and Trade) of Tien Giang, to achieve the above objectives, the Centre has installed 324 power-saving lights for: Department of Industry and Trade, Retirement Club, Branch of Market Management in helping these units to save 41.7% of power compared with the older systems.

In the field of public lighting, the Centre has installed 58 pilot controls to reduce lighting power in off-peak hours for 58 sodium lamps 250W of My Tho city; 24 compact lamps 50W to replace the high-pressure lamps 150W in the lighting system of the internal roads of My Thanh Hung Residents (My Tho city); supported Office of Urban Management, Go Cong town to install 26 saving-energy lights; simultaneously supported 712 controls to reduce lighting power in off-peak hours for other districts.

Mr Le Van Nghia, Permanent Vice Chairman of Tien Giang the People’s Committee

In addition, the Center is implementing a pilot program "Support households in energy saving and efficiency" with several practical activities such as training knowledge on energy saving and efficiency, provision of power-saving lights, gas-saving devices, installation of solar water heaters, biogas systems... attracting 263 households to participate, saving 25% on average costs of energy consumption. In the agricultural sector, the Centre is implementing a pilot model using power-saving compact lamps 20W instead of 75W incandescent bulbs in the technique of planting dragon fruit in improper crop at the household of Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh, Tan My Chanh commune, My Tho city with the number of 100 compact fluorescent light bulbs. Flowering rate is about 90%, saving 70% of power consumption.

From the above results, the Centre has replicated the model to 12 farmer households planting dragon fruit by allowing them to borrow in rotation 215 compact fluorescent light bulbs for the dragon area of 7 ha; supported 52 households to buy 20,834 compact light bulbs 20W at the rate of 10,000VND/bulb, with the total fund of over 208 million. In addition, the Centre has also installed 514 solar water heaters for the households and units in the framework of the program "Support organizations and individuals to use solar water heaters" implemented in the period 2010 - 2014.

To raise the awareness of energy saving and efficiency for all people, the Centre has also built an integrated website, which organizes specializing pages, categories and issues the guidance leaflet on energy saving devices and solutions. As a result, the province has always achieved or even exceeded the annual electricity-saving targets. Specifically, in 2008, the province could save 15.31 million kWh, reaching 110.6%, save 39.34 million kWh in 2013, reaching 122.9% of allocated quotas. Generally for the past 5 years (2008-2013), the province has saved 120.75 million kWh of electricity. Thereby, it indicates the efficiency of the policy to encourage people, entities and organizations towards energy saving and efficiency.

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