Institute of Energy was established on 1st January 1989 based on the integration of the Energy and Electrification Institute and Power Research Institute according to the Decision No. 1379 NL/TCCB dated 5th December 1988 by the Ministry of Energy (now it is Ministry of Industry and Trade).
The Institute operates Science and Technology activities based on the following legal documents:
– Science and Technology Registration certificate No. 224 dated 2nd February 1994 (issued first time); No. A-041 dated 3rd January 2003 (issued second time) and No. A-041 dated 24th June 2008 (issued third time) by Ministry of Science and Technology.
– Electricity operation license No. 1345/GP-BCN dated 23rd January 2003 (issued first time); No. 3348/GP-BCN dated 15th December 2004 (issued second time); No. 1679/GP-BCN dated 15th May 2007 (issued third time); No. 67/GP-DTDL dated 15th November 2012 (issued fourth time) and the current valid license No. 32/GP-BCT dated 27th March 2014 by Ministry of Industry and Trade on the following areas:
1. Consultancy on electric power development planning for the nationwide, provinces, cities.
2. Consultancy on cascade hydropower development planning for rivers.
3. Consultancy on preparation of investment, designing, bidding of thermal power plant projects at any installed capacity.
4. Consultancy on preparation of construction supervision of thermal power plant projects at any installed capacity.
5. Consultancy on preparation of investment, designing, bidding of hydro power plant projects with installed capacity up to 100MW.
6. Consultancy on preparation of construction supervision of hydro power plant projects with installed capacity up to 100MW.
7. Consultancy on preparation of investment, designing, bidding of power lines and substation projects with all voltage levels.
8. Consultancy on preparation of construction supervision of power lines and substation projects with all voltage levels.
Areas of Institute of Energy’s operation: throughout the whole country.
– Science and technology business registration certificate No. 0109000010 dated 6th August 2007 (issued first time) and registered to change the content for the first time on 15th September 2011 by Planning and Investment Department of Ha Noi city.
Business areas:
1. Preparation of power development planning for territory areas, provinces, cities, industrial zones and population areas in the whole country and other countries in the region.
2. Preparation of hydropower development planning.
3. Preparation of renewable energy resource development planning.
4. Preparation of master plan on national rural electrification.
5. Consulting for preparation of investment report, investment project, technical design, cost estimates, construction drawings, reviewing, preparing of bidding documents, and construction supervision of following projects:
+ Thermal power plants, hydropower plants and nuclear power plants.
+ Power lines, substations with voltage to super-high voltage levels.
+ Construction, industrial and civil projects.
+ Renewable energy projects.
+ Projects of manufacturing electrical equipment, electrical materials and lightning protection for projects.
+ Telecommunication projects.
6. Hydraulic modeling.
7. Consulting and implementing energy conservation and energy efficiency, energy auditing and management of energy database.
8. Consulting on verification, testing of electrical equipment and materials and measurement of electro-magnetic field effects.
9. Implementing CDM projects and issues related to climate change.
10. Geological investigation and topographical investigations for projects.
11. Carrying out construction and installation of power and renewable energy projects.
12. Implementing technology transfer, procurement, importing, exporting of technologies, technique, new products, materials, equipment, elements, and technology lines in the fields of Institute’s operation.
– The TCVN ISO 9001:2008 certificate granted by Vietnam Certification Centre (Quacert)