Hot weather across Vietnam put the country’s total electricity consumption at 45,528 megawatts at noon Tuesday, exceeding 45,000 MW for the first time ever.
Nguyen Duc Ninh, director of the National Load Dispatch Center under Vietnam Electricity (EVN), disclosed the figure at a seminar on energy transition Wednesday in Hanoi.
Tuesday’s consumption is nearly 3,100 MW higher than the country’s peak in 2021. For the north alone, the difference is around 1,400 MW.
Of the consumption peak recorded Tuesday, the north took up to 22,330 MW, nearly half of the record.
The country's electricity output reached nearly 900 million kWh on Tuesday, with over 458 million kWh from the north, 360 million kWh from the south, and more than 79 million kWh from the central region.
Hanoi's electricity consumption Tuesday peaked at nearly 100.3 million kWh, an increase of more than 2.3 million kWh compared to the hottest day in 2021, as the city experienced the fourth day of the first heat wave this year. The capital recorded temperatures of 39-43 degrees Celsius.