EVN To Provide 20 Million Free Fluorescent Lamps
Electricity of Vietnam says its workers will go to street-facing houses and small shops to substitute fluorescent lamps for in-use electric bulbs, for free.
An EVN representative told a news conference on September 16 that EVN would substitute fluorescent lamps for 20 million bulbs being used in street-facing houses and small shops. At the conference, EVN deputy general director Nguyen Manh Hung said EVN considered the substitution as an effective and necessary step to overcome power shortages in 2006-2008. It is expected that 10 million bulbs will be substituted between the beginning and July of 2006 and another 10 million bulbs will be replaced from August 2006 to the end of 2007.
There are just two fluorescent lamp producers in Vietnam – the Rang Dong Lamp and Thermos Flask Joint Stock Company making 1.5 million lamps annually; and the Philip Vietnam Company, 6.5 million lamps. In this light, EVN will need to organize an international bid to collect enough fluorescent lamps for the substitution program, which will cost about US$36 million, or VND569 billion. If the Government exempts import tariff, the cost will however decline to about US$25.4 million, or VND405 billion.
(Source: Tien Phong)
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