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According to the figure released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade yesterday, there will be varying degrees of power shortages from 2019 to 2025. The most serious shortage will be concentrated in the dry season from 2020 to 2023, with production shortages ranging from 1.5 billion kWh to 5 billion kWh.

Vietnam National Coal and Minerals Industries Holding Corporation (Vinacomin) has assigned the Vinacomin - Power Corporation to invest in the first solar power project with a capacity of 15MW and investment level of about US$ 15 million on the reservoir of Dong Nai 5 hydropower plant in Dong Nai province.

Dong Nai People's Committee has just submitted a document to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) for considering and appraising 8 solar power projects to submit to the Prime Minister for additional approving these projects to the National Power Development Planning (NPDP) up to 2025.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has just decided to supplement the Trung Son Solar Power Project (SPP) project to the Power Development Planning of Khanh Hoa province in 2016-2020 period with the vision to 2035.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has required Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to conduct investors of the new power plants – objectives participating in competitive power generation market to complete rapidly necessary conditions for bringing them soon in the competitive electricity wholesale market.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has approved the wholesale price framework of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) for the power corporations in 2018.

Cooperation relationship between Power Machines (Russian Federation) and Vietnam began more than a half century ago with the delivery of three generators for Thac Ba hydraulic power plant, which was the country's most powerful one for a long time. Then came the turn of Uong Bi and Pha Lai thermal power plants, as well as Tri An and Hoa Binh hydraulic power plants.

In order to speed up the procedures for deploying investment in developing power projects (power plants and grids) for electricity importation from Laos to Vietnam, recently Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) directed a mission of EVN National Power Transmission (EVN NPT) headed by Mr. Nguyen Tuan Tung, NPT chairman to have working meeting with a number of the investors of power projects in Laos.

During the official visit of the General Secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong to France, on March 27, 2018 in Élysée Palace, under the witness of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and French President Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam Tran Tuan Anh handed the investment approval paper of Son My-1 Thermal Power Plant (TPP) for Electricity of France (EDF).  

The Government Office issued Notice 216/TB-VPCP on June 8, 2023, at the conclusion of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha at the meeting on the situation of electricity supply in the dry season in 2023. In conclusion, the Government requested Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to develop scenarios for managing electricity supply according to the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) including the scenarios of lacking power plants and having to cut off electricity.

Considering proposals of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) on supplementing the electricity system operation plan in 2023 and according to the proposal of the Electricity Regulatory Authority, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has just approved the "plan for electricity supply and operation of the national power system in 2023”. The Vietnam Energy Magazine would like to raise the content of this Decision for the reference of our readers.

The Electricity Regulatory Authority - Ministry of Industry and Trade informed that, by the end of December 2022, there are 108 power plants directly participating in offering in the competitive electricity market, with a total installed capacity of 30,837 MW, equal to about 38.8% of the total capacity of the national power system. The competitive nature in the electricity wholesale market of Vietnam has gradually expanded in scale.

Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has issued Decision No 5107/QD-BCT on regulating the framework of electricity prices from thermal and hydrological power plants in 2017, according to which, the ceiling price level (without VAT) of coal-fired thermal plant is calculated by parameters of fuel used for power generation and the ceiling price level (without Royalties, forest environmental service fees and VAT) of hydrological plant is 1070 dong/kWh.

Being the first and largest BOT power plant in Vietnam using pulverized coal fired boiler technology, Mong Duong 2 BOT will provide much electricity for the national power system. With fuel source from one of the largest and highest quality coal mines in the north, the power plant has the advantage of stable and reliable coal supply. Along with the investment in modern technology, the plant is expected to contribute to resolving power shortages in the coming years.

On the proposal of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) and the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has agreed that the thermal power plants using Block B gas will indirectly participate in the electricity market under the regulations of Circular No. 45 of MOIT Minister.