Vietnam’s energy demand is expected to grow by a double-digit percentage in 2021, as a natural 10% or so demand growth combines with the Coronavirus recovery, which has dented expected 2020 GDP growth all the way down to 3.6% and power demand growth to 3%. Vietnam aims to increase its generation capacity by 12% to 14% annually through to 2025. Over the decade, demand is expected to rise from 56 GW to 138 GW, then to 302 GW in 2045. There are fears of insufficient power supply from 2021 onwards, without huge investment and development of both power plants and especially the transmission grid. In the south half of the grid in particular, a potential shortfall of 3.7 TWh was…