Building with Solar Power in Vietnam

Are you planning to include a small solar power contributor to your building project ?  Adopting a small Solar Power solutions is one the the easiest contributions you can make towards lowering your footprint on the earth’s resources in 2010 its easy, fast and affordable !

I have made no secret of the fact that I don’t agree with much of the content on some of the expat discussion forums about building in SE Asia. It was in fact my belief that many of those forums are filled with misinformation and bias from mostly well meaning but rather ” old school ” expats that inspired me to add a discussion forum to this site documenting my own build.

When it comes to the adoption of solar power my point about these forums is every bit as valid, most of the discussions that I have seen to date revolve around the “hard cost” of implementing a solar power system, that the “pay back is not there” that it “costs too much compared with the price of electricity” and whilst I am as mindful as anyone about managing costs I feel these threads are totally missing the point.

As we match full steam ahead into 2010 ( god its almost mid year already ! ) we should all be way beyond the discussion only the  cost around the adoption of green building practices. It is our obligation to implement as many measures as possible into our building projects that will reduce our footprint on the earth and the adoption of some form of renewable energy into our houses be it Solar Power, Wind Power or Hydro Power by this time should be considered mandatory for anyone that cares about their children’s or grandchildren’s future.

Don’t get me wrong I am not asking anyone to go totally “off the grid” that is just not practical, all I am asking you to carefully consider if you can remove just a small percentage of your demand on the earths resources by including a small supplemental solar power ( or wind power ) system into your build, even if the only “pay back” you get is by doing the right thing by our planet.

Thailand’s energy consumption is estimated at 1,352 kilowatt-hours of electricity per capita, currently, renewable energy, which includes biomass, small-scale hydroelectric plants and solar power, contributes only about 1 percent of Thailand’s energy production if we could improve that by just a few percent at the grass roots level that would be an amazing achievement.

Basically there are three ways you can do this, if you are the hands on type you can go the ” home brew ” setup, which is exactly what I will be doing home made all the way down to making my own solar panels and wind turbine.

The next step up are “solar power kits ” and very easy and reliable today or if that to much effort you can bring in a professional PV consultant to assist you with a managed solution.

If you are a Solar Power Product Supplier or Consultant and would like to added to this list please send an email to admin@buildinginasia.com.

Here are a few links for your consideration.

1, How to Make your Own Solar Power.

Solar Power Companies in Vietnam

Seilar Energy Vietnam Co. Ltd

Building #30 Tran Dai Nghia HBT, Hanoi, Vietnam

Telephone +84462931013

Website: Seilar

Business type: wholesale supplier, importer, distributor
Product types: solar collectors evacuated tube, solar collectors flat plate, packaged power systems, photovoltaic systems.

Asia Petroleum Energy Corporation

Building159 Dien Bien Phu Boulevard, Binh Thanh, Hcmc Vietnam

Telephone: 84-8-35141952

Business type: Production, wholesale supplier, exporter, importer

Product types: Produce Ethanol, biodiesel, Biogas, waste water treatment. Distributor LPG/Biogas generator, solar systems, solar vacuum tubes, wind power.

Service types: Construction, engineering, project development for clean energy .

BACH-KHOA INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR ENERGY

593/9 NGUYEN KIEM STREET, WARD 3, GOVAP DISTRICT, HoChiMinh, VietNam

Telephone: +84–8-912-90-97 , +84-982-839-879

Business type: R&D, Manufacturer
Product types: Solar Energy Products: PV, Solar Water Heater Wind Energy Products: Small Wind turbines for battery charging (from 200 W up to 3.2kW) Consultancy service for Wind and Solar Energy Performing Wind resource assessment .

Fortune CP Ltd

Telephone: 44 1322303070
Business type: manufacturer, wholesale supplier, exporter
Product types: Solar photovoltaic panels, solar PV systems, solar DC fridges, deep cycle maintenance-free batteries, charge controllers, emergency power back-up UPS, solar/generator hybrid systems, solar systems for telecom BTS stations, pure sine wave inverters, energy saver bulbs, LED lights, solar street lights, solar water heating, solar water pumps, solar billboards, wind turbines, industrial/commercial projects, solar pool heating, off-grid systems, grid-tie systems, solar air conditioners, solar garden lights, solar cathodic protection systems.

Service types: Project and system design, installation and commissioning, energy audit, project financing

GreenField consulting Co. Ltd.

Suite 236, Binh Minh Hotel, 27 Ly Thai To, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam 10000

Telephone +84 (4) 2211 7800

Product types: biomass energy biofuel, hydro energy systems (large), solar thermal energy.
Service types: Consulting & development

Minh Ha Co Ltd

315C Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Dist. 3, HCMC, Vietnam, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam 08

Business type: retail sales, wholesale supplier, importer
Product types: solar electric power systems, solar charge controllers, solar traffic lighting systems, solar traffic lighting systems, solar roofing systems, solar roofing systems, all products for solar energy.
Service types: consulting, design, installation

Viettong

364 HO VAN HUE 2 Str, Ward 9- Phu Nhuan Dist, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Telephone: 84 8 8479 425

Business type: wholesale supplier
Product types: telecommunication batteries, photovoltaic systems.