{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","title":"Next Biz Thing #392 vietnamsolar.vn","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":684,"description":"Vietnam Solar https://vietnamsolar.vn/This episode of The Next Biz Thing travels to Vietnam to look at Vietnam Solar, an official solar equipment distributor and EPC contractor operating across the country since 2018. Markus J. Diplama explores why Vietnam is one of the best placed countries on earth for solar generation, what it means for one company to handle both equipment supply and installation engineering, and how their ESCO financing model removes the upfront cost barrier that stops most businesses from going solar. Worth a listen for anyone curious about how the energy transition actually happens on the ground.Every single hour, the sun delivers more energy to the surface of this planet than every human being on it will use in an entire year. That fact has been true for as long as there have been humans. What has changed, and changed remarkably fast, is our ability to actually catch any of it. And in some parts of the world, that shift is not a future story. It is happening on rooftops right now, at a pace that would have sounded fanciful ten years ago.Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where we go looking for the companies building the world we are about to live in. Today we are heading to Vietnam, to a company that has spent the better part of a decade putting sunlight to work across factories, farms, and family homes. The company is Vietnam Solar, and this is a story about what happens when a country with extraordinary natural advantages meets a business willing to do the unglamorous work of making the technology actually land.Let me set the context, because Vietnam is a genuinely fascinating place for this conversation. It is one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia. Manufacturing has expanded enormously. Industrial parks have multiplied. And all of that growth carries an electricity bill that rises every single year. At the same time, Vietnam is blessed with something a lot of industrialised...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pb0F3jmlyIfOyRlax9T63lldyNPycKwPJeWzBdTAC44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}