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According to the Electricity of Vietnam, in the first quarter of 2015, while continuing comfortable operation, the Vietnamese Competitive Generation Market (VCGM)  had attracted additionally 4 power plants as Nam Chien 2, Da M’Bri Hydropower and Extended Uong Bi 1, Uong Bi 2 Thermal power plants to participate offering prices directly to the market.

On January 10, 2019, in Hanoi, the signing ceremony of the framework agreement on supplying and consuming LNG for Nhon Trach 3 and 4 power plants between Vietnam Gas Corporation JSC (PVGAS) and PetroVietnam Power Corporation  JSC  (PV Power).

On December 15, 2021, in Hanoi, PetroVietnam Power Corporation - JSC (PV Power) and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for Ca Mau1 and 2 Power Plants 1 and 2.

On December 12, in Ninh Thuan province, the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) held a ceremony of starting out the power supply system for constructing Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). The Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai – Head of the State Steering Committee of Ninh Thuan NPP attended  the ceremony and commanded to start out the project.

On November 2, 2016 in Hanoi, the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (VN) in collaboration with the PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) held a cerymony to sign the principle contract to supply imported coal for the thermal power plants (PV Power TPP) invested by PVN.

The Government has told relevant agencies to consider stopping new coal-fired power plant projects as domestic coal reserves are falling and the country will have to import coal, possibly from 2020, to keep its thermal power plants running.

Quang Ninh Province's historic rainstorm severely disrupted the area's coal supplies, and could temporarily shut down several thermal power plants.

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.

Twelve gas turbines with a combined capacity of nearly 690 megawatts with a total order volume around USD 570 million including long-term service, Siemens has also committed a USD 115 million loan to support the power plants’ construction.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued instructions on the projects at the An Khanh–Bac Giang Thermal Power Plant in the northern province of Bac Giang and Duc Giang–Lao Cai Thermal Power Plant in the northern province of Lao Cai.

Siemens has signed binding agreements for a substantial expansion of three existing thermal power plants with Ende Andina SAM of Bolivia. These contracts follow a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from November 2015 and were signed in the presence of Bolivia’s President, Evo Morales and Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG.

On 16 July 2015, in Vinh Hai commune, Ninh Hai district and Phuoc Dinh commune, Thuan Nam district, Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) held a ceremony for publishing Decision No. 6070 / QD-BCT of the  Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on adjusting sites of Ninh Thuan 1 and Ninh Thuan 2 Nuclear Power Plants (NPP).

The Prime Minister has issued a decision on a number of solutions to handle and use ash, slag from thermal power plants as raw material for  building materials production.  

On March 25, in Binh Thuan, Deputy General Director of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) - Nguyen Tai Anh chaired a conference to "promote the ash and slag sale at EVN's coal-fired power plants".

Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) just had a meeting with the representatives of Karpowership Group (Republic of Turkey) to discuss cooperation opportunities between the two sides, in which there was a solution to generate electricity from floating power plants (when the Vietnamese power system will lack local supply).