Da Nang People’s Committee Vice Chairman Le Trung Chinh on Friday met with representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to discus the deployment of the Viet Nam Smart and Energy Efficient City Project (SEECP) in the city in the coming time.

Da Nang People’s Committee Vice Chairman Le Trung Chinh (first row, right) meeting with the ADB representatives

The project is financially funded by the Korea Energy Agency (KEA) and technically supported by ADB.

Under the project, cost-effective solutions offered by ADB will be implemented in Da Nang in a bid to help one public hospital, one school and exisiting street lighting systems in 5 streets, namely Le Dai Hanh, Le Van Hien, Ngo Quyen, An Duong Vuong and Mai Dang Chon, become more energy efficient.

At the meeting, the ADB representatives asked for active support from Da Nang relevant agencies to implement successful energy audits next month based on which the most practical energy efficient solutions will be used in Da Nang. 

The ADB representatives delivering plans for conducting energy audits at the Friday meeting

As planned, energy audits will be performed by ADB experts on 5% of Da Nang's total urban street lights, equivalent to 3,000 lights.

Encouragingly, ADB is willing to support Da Nang to increase energy saving in street lighting and public areas in the coming time.

Da Nang is now giving the priority to replacing the existing traditional lights with LED ones in major streets under the Da Nang Urban Lighting Master Plan to 2030, with a vision to 2050.  In detail, 10% of street lights in Da Nang's urban areas will be replaced with LED ones per year over the period 2021 - 2025.

ADB will support Da Nang take up energy efficiency across street lighting network  in an effort to reduce electricity and maintenance costs as well as greenhouse gas emissions, thereby boosting the development of the tourism, and driving the city’s growth as a whole.

By HOANG HIEP- Translated by A.T