Along with improving corporate governance, using energy economically and efficiently is an important solution to help businesses reduce production costs and increase competitive advantage. This is also a solution to create conditions for businesses to move towards the goal of green and sustainable production.
Gemmy Wood Joint Stock Company (Tan Phu Industrial Park, Tan Son District) built a factory that maximizes natural light and ventilation, saving energy consumption.
Reduce costs, increase efficiency
In the context of increasing energy demand for production and daily life, continuous high growth in electricity load, gradually depleting coal, oil and gas resources, and heavy dependence on imports... using energy economically and efficiently is a practical solution, contributing significantly to ensuring energy security and economic development associated with green production.
Vietnam is seriously implementing green transformation in the entire economy, aiming for zero net emissions by 2050. In that journey, many enterprises have been actively practicing electricity saving and using clean energy in production. Solutions for efficient energy use implemented by enterprises include: Arranging scientific production processes to reduce electricity loss; improving technical machinery, improving operating efficiency; applying technological improvement measures, rationalizing fuel combustion, heating, cooling and heat energy conversion; reducing heat and electricity losses in the process of transmitting, distributing and consuming electricity; recovering energy from the waste cycle for reuse...
Viet Tri Paper Joint Stock Company specializes in producing packaging paper, with an output of over 140,000 tons of products/year. Mr. Tran Van Manh - Head of the Company's Administrative Organization Department said: "The Company focuses on investing in technology, operating processes, and maintaining machinery and equipment to improve efficiency; using engines with appropriate capacity for each device, building appropriate operating modes to reduce peak hour loads. Currently, the Company uses paper scrap as raw materials for production, of which the amount of recycled margins for packaging paper production accounts for 90% of the raw materials. Thereby, contributing to reducing the norms of raw materials, fuel, and energy consumed for production. The Company also stopped using coal to burn boilers since 2014 and switched to using wood by-products."
The potential for energy saving, especially in the industrial and construction sectors (accounting for over 60% of the province's electricity consumption), is still very large because many enterprises have outdated machinery systems, production lines, and technology, leading to low energy efficiency and effectiveness.
Applying energy-saving solutions flexibly and synchronously with a clear strategy will help businesses achieve high efficiency in saving energy costs, maximizing business profits, and increasing the ability to integrate into the international economy.
Many enterprises have applied technical measures and built reasonable factories to maximize the efficiency of lighting, ventilation and cooling systems; modern automation technologies such as industrial robots, automatic control systems and smart production lines have been put into operation.
CMC Corporation (Thuy Van Industrial Park, Viet Tri City) operates in the field of manufacturing ceramic tiles and glazed roof tiles, with a product output of about 20 million m2/year. The company established an Innovation Board to conduct research and optimize stages in the production process to save fuel, raw materials, and operating costs. In 2023, Kaizen productivity and quality improvement programs and activities will help the company save nearly 30 billion VND in production costs.
Ms. Vu Thi Loan - Deputy General Director of the Company said: "To create outstanding advantages for the products, meeting the requirements of quality and aesthetics, the Company focuses on investing in modern production lines, advanced technology and machinery, highly automated, helping to minimize errors, ensure stable operation, and use energy reasonably".
For businesses, implementing innovative solutions to use energy efficiently not only brings direct economic benefits to businesses but also contributes to reducing energy imports, saving resources, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is also a way for businesses to demonstrate their proactive responsibility to society and the community.
CMC Corporation (Thuy Van Industrial Park, Viet Tri City) actively innovates technology and automates production, helping to reduce raw materials and energy consumption.
Accompanying businesses
Currently, the province's functional sectors have been actively supporting enterprises in applying, transferring, mastering, and developing technologies on energy saving and efficiency; integrating the field of energy saving and efficiency into scientific research and technology development programs; consulting and supporting enterprises with solutions to save electricity and energy; building energy management models, and supporting energy audits.
From 2018 to present, with programs to support small and medium enterprises in technological innovation, the province has supported more than 60 technological innovation projects with a total budget of over 20 billion VND. Through technological innovation activities, dozens of technologies and processes have been transferred, absorbed and mastered by enterprises; applying smart production technology, minimizing waste in the production process, saving on human resources, time, raw materials, fuel and energy.
Plan No. 3085/KH-UBND, dated August 11, 2023 of the Provincial People's Committee on implementing Directive No. 20/CT-TTg, dated June 8, 2023 of the Prime Minister on enhancing electricity saving in the period of 2023-2025 and the following years sets the target of the whole province saving at least 2% of total electricity consumption annually. With synchronous solutions in electricity saving, in 2023, the total electricity saving output of the whole province will reach 83.78 million kWh, equivalent to an electricity saving rate of 2.21%, of which the electricity saving output for business and service purposes is 2.7 million kWh, reaching 2.85%; Saving electricity output for industrial production purposes is 48.97 million kWh, reaching 2.05%... Developing renewable energy sources, the province is implementing the construction of a waste treatment plant combined with power generation with a total capacity of 18 MW, developing 210 rooftop solar power systems with a capacity of over 3,100kWp.
Mr. Pham Van Chuc - Deputy Director of Phu Tho Electricity Company said: “Along with implementing technical solutions, accelerating the progress of investment projects in construction and renovation of the power grid, using electricity economically and efficiently plays an important role in ensuring stable power supply, especially for key power users. In 2024, the Company signed a load adjustment agreement with 230/230 customers with electricity consumption of 1 million kWh/year or more. Strengthen propaganda work, request businesses to develop and implement solutions for economical and efficient electricity use; ensure the correct use of capacity and load chart; implement reasonable production plans; minimize the mobilization of equipment and machinery with large power consumption during peak hours".
In the context of Vietnam's deep integration into the global economy, the requirements of importing countries' markets for goods such as carbon labeling and energy consumption control are increasingly being promoted. To improve energy efficiency, in the coming time, it is necessary to continue mobilizing resources to promote energy saving and efficiency through synchronous implementation of state management tasks and solutions, technical support, scientific and technological research, product development, training and human resource development. Enterprises also need to proactively improve technology, especially in energy-intensive industries, eliminate outdated production capacity, and improve energy efficiency through investment in energy-saving projects.
Nguyen Hue
Implementing Resolution No. 04-NQ/HU, dated January 8, 2021 of the Lam Thao District Party Committee on developing sub-urban agricultural commodity production in the period of 2020 - 2025, Lam Thao town has concretized it into specific programs and plans, suitable for practice to effectively implement the set goals and tasks.
Green onion products of Dat To Seed Agricultural Cooperative, Ngoc Tinh area are recognized as meeting 3-star OCOP standards.
Due to the rapid urbanization process, production land is increasingly narrowing, requiring the Party Committee and the government of Lam Thao town to develop sub-urban agriculture in the direction of specialization, focusing on the production of commodity products, and rapidly increasing the value per unit area.
With the goal of effectively exploiting and using agricultural land funds associated with changing farmers' awareness and promoting the role of the subject in production development, the town focuses on reviewing land funds, researching and developing plans to implement the resolution according to the policy of linking agricultural production planning with the general planning of the district, including planning concentrated production areas for products with potential and advantages for development in the direction of goods.
In order to increase the value of products, the town encourages the application of science and technology in care, pest control, the use of high-quality, high-yield varieties, and the safe and widespread production process in the community. Arrange crop rotation, increase production seasons, convert ineffective production land and garden land to grow valuable crops, suitable for the soil, fully and effectively exploit land and water resources... In particular, priority is given to developing the region's strong products, which are green vegetable production, and planning into large-scale specialized vegetable production areas.
With the advantages of soil, production experience, combined with the advantages of convenient transportation, the gateway to trade with some areas with large consumption markets such as Viet Tri, Hanoi, Yen Bai, the vegetable production profession of the town has developed widely. Currently, the town has many households in Son Thinh, Ngoc Tinh, Thang Loi areas earning hundreds of millions of VND/year from growing vegetables.
In 2023, the town will have green onion products that meet the 3-star OCOP standard. The locality is also actively coordinating to complete the application for a growing area code for 2 hectares of green vegetables in Phuong Lai area, and completing the application for recognition of 3-star OCOP standards for exported dried banana products.
In livestock farming, the town focuses on increasing the value of local advantageous products, promoting the development of livestock herds in the direction of concentration, farm scale, biosafety, ensuring environmental hygiene, while strengthening propaganda, implementing vaccination, and disinfecting livestock herds.
Currently, the town has a total herd of 107 cows, over 1,400 pigs, over 14,600 poultry... At the same time, the town encourages the development of aquaculture in the direction of intensive and industrial farming, converting low-lying areas and ineffective cultivation to growing valuable trees combined with aquaculture... Up to now, the average product value on the town's cultivated and aquaculture land has reached 160 million VND/ha/year.
In the coming time, Lam Thao town will continue to focus resources on investing in renovating and upgrading the irrigation system in the area; promote mechanization in production; effectively implement the plan to encourage and support agricultural development in the direction of urban goods, high-tech agriculture, linked to the consumption market; innovate the form of production organization, service provision in the locality; continue to direct the development of OCOP products in the area; encourage the establishment of new enterprises, cooperatives, cooperative groups, production and business households... to participate in cooperation, linking production, processing, and product consumption associated with the development of local typical products.
Phuong Thao
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