State utility Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has written to its coal suppliers asking them for an extension of payment deadlines to maintain power generation. Apart from proposing TKV and Dong Bac Corporation extend payment deadlines, EVN expects the suppliers to continue providing its thermal power plants with sufficient coal to maintain electricity generation. EVN expects to borrow 52,000 metric tons of coal from the Song Hau 1 Thermal Power Plant. State utility Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has written to its coal suppliers asking them for an extension of payment deadlines to maintain power generation. Apart from proposing TKV and Dong Bac Corporation extend payment deadlines, EVN expects the suppliers to continue providing its thermal power plants with sufficient coal to maintain electricity generation.