The Vietnamese government has proposed to invest roughly 858.66 trillion dong in its power industry during 2016-20. Nearly 75 per cent of the investment will be utilised for the power generation segment, while the remaining 25 per cent will be utilised for the development of the power grid network. Reportedly, of the total proposed investment, 200 trillion dong is expected to be mobilised through foreign official development assistance schemes, 100 trillion dong from foreign investment inflows, 4 trillion dong from the state budget (for rural electrification programmes), and 554.66 trillion dong from domestic and foreign loans. So far, a significant part of investment capital for the power sector has been sourced from foreign countries and organisations, namely, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Agence Française de Développement, and Germany’s KfW Development Bank.
