Nearly 900,000 households in HCMC saving electrical energy

Thứ tư, 3/8/2011 | 11:28 GMT+7

Since the launch of the emulation drive for households to save electrical energy two months ago, as many as 889,552 households in Ho Chi Minh City have lowered their power consumption. The Municipal Electricity Authority also announced that there would be no power cuts this month.

The emulation drive that started in April received a huge response from residents across the City. So far, there have been over 208,400 households saving electrical consumption by less than 5%, approximately 129,300 households by 5 to 10%, and about 561,900 households by over 10%. According to assessment by the Municipal Electricity Authority, the drive has enhanced the City’s residents’ awareness and formed their habits of saving electricity. According to the HCMC Center for Energy Efficiency, if a household reduced its consumption of 1 kWh of electricity a day, the City would save 620.5 million KWh of electricity a year, equivalent to 770.6 billion VND. There are about 2 million households in the City. In another move, Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation announced that there would be no power cuts (except those for grid repairs, trimming tree branches away, incidents...) in June. "In May, the average power consumption of the City was 45.3 million kWh a day. We will not cut off power in June to comply with the direction by the Ministry of Industry and Trade," said Nguyen Anh Vu, Head of Public Relations Board, Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation. Source: VNEEP