Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on August 13 stressed the significance of consistency in the technical approach as well as economic efficacy while developing a decree on mechanisms and policies to develop rooftop solar power.

According to the plan, Vietnam Electricity will pay for the surplus energy from the local solar power system to the national grid in alignment with the average market electricity price of the previous year.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has been asked to design a plan to allow northern rooftop solar power systems to sell up to 20 percent of their capacity to the national grid.

Replying to a comment that rooftop solar power policies are too changeable, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) said that it has strictly pursued the government’s instructions to create a decree on rooftop solar power development.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has been consistent in its view that the major goal of rooftop solar power is self-sufficiency for users, not sales for profit.

In a significant move towards regulating energy initiatives, the Red River Delta and Southeast regions face a new mandate: they must seek approval from the National Assembly to pursue rooftop solar power projects.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien believes that paying zero dong to electricity to be generated by rooftop solar power systems is a reasonable policy which could prevent profiteering.

VCCI has proposed that the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) amend current regulations and allow clients in the same buildings to sell or buy rooftop solar power directly to each other without transmitting electricity through the national grid.

Any excess energy can be supplied to the grid, but the government only purchases it at a rate of zero dong.

The draft encourages installation of rooftop solar power systems on people’s homes and office buildings, but does not encourage them for industrial zones, schools, hospitals, airports, seaports, railway stations and bus stations.

Many rooftop solar power investors have been told to submit construction permits to legalize their projects.

Responding to the Government's policy of encouraging the development of solar power, many businesses across the country have invested in solar power. Ironically, many investors now have to worry about debts piling up.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has come to several conclusions after its review of issues related to rooftop solar power development.

To energize before December 31, 2020, to enjoy preferential prices, many enterprises in the Central Highlands had sought every way to speed up the construction of rooftop solar power projects, despite violations in land use, construction, 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), localities and Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) to review issues related to Vietnam’s solar power development.

Although Vietnam began to develop solar power plants just about three years ago, the initially achieved capacities have been outstanding. 

HCM City aims to have 1,000 MWp of rooftop solar power capacity installed by 2024 in its industrial parks, export processing zones and high-tech parks, up from 700MWp now.

Industrial zones as well as supermarkets and large real estate developers have begun designing rooftop solar power systems for their new projects.

More than 1,000 businesses located at processing, industrial and hi-tech parks in Ho Chi Minh City are set to have solar panels installed on their rooftops in the next few years in an effort to promote green development.