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Binh Thuan Provincial People's Committee (PPC) has issued the Decision on approving for Phan Lam Energy Company to invest Phan Lam 2 solar power plant with a capacity of 49 MWp and a total investment capital of 1,202 billion VND on an area of 58.8 ha in Phan Lam commune, Bac Binh district, Binh Thuan province. 

Sao Mai group and Sterling Wilson – an Indian Leading Group for Consulting & Constructing solar power projects have signed the EPC contract for the first phase of Sao Mai solar power project with a total value of US$ 80 million.

On September 23rd, in the Song Luy commune, Bac Binh district, Binh Thuan province, the Binh Thuan Photovoltaic Investment Joint Stock Company held the Ceremony for starting construction of the Song Luy 1 SPP.

Ministry of Construction (MOC) has agreed to supplement the Thanh Hoa 1 solar power project into the National Power Planning with a note for Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) in evalueting the capacities of finance and construction investment of investor and analysing socio-economic efficiency of the project.

Bamboo Capital Group (BCG) - Bang Duong Consortium and Hanwha Q-Cells Group (South Korea) have signed a cooperation agreement to invest in 100MW solar power project with a total investment on an area of 125 ha in Thanh An commune, Thanh Hoa district, Long An province. The project expects to be started out for construction in the first quarter of 2018 and put into operation in 2019.

Thanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee (PPC) has just adopted the policy to invest a solar power plant with a capacity of 30 MW and a total investment of 800 billion VND.

After highly agreeing to propose the Prime Minister agreed to transfer the investor of O Mon 3 and O Mon 4 gas-fired thermal power projects from the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN). Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha proposed the two sides urgently transfer all the implementation results, as well as the obligations and responsibilities of the investor related to these two projects.

Recently, in Hanoi, Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) worked with the Mission of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners - CIP from Denmark headed by Mr. Robert Helms – the Member and Director of the New Market Fund offshore wind power (under CIP). At the meeting, the Danish partners proposed that EVN cooperate in developing a number of large offshore wind power projects and the power transmission grid.

The Nhon Trach 3 and 4 Power Projects were approved by the Prime Minister for investment policy, appraised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) for basic designs, decided by PV Power for investment and managed by the Power Management Board for project development implementation.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) have coordinated to organize an international experience-sharing Workshop on rooftop solar power development (under the self-production, self-consumption mechanism). The Workshop was held in the form of face-to-face and online for all EVN units.

On August 30, 2022, in Ho Chi Minh City, the Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy (Ministry of Industry and Trade) in collaboration with the Scientific Council of Vietnam Energy Review, the Energy Information Centre held the International conference with the object "Policies for developing the wind, solar and gas power projects in Vietnam". The conference was divided into three sessions (two morning sessions and one afternoon session).

As well known, by the end of 2020, in Vietnam, there were put into operation power generation projects with a total installed capacity of 69,300 MW, of which the renewable energy capacity was 21,000 MW including 3,600 MW small hydro,  300 MW biomass power, more than 600 MW wind power, 16,500 MW solar power (7,900 MW ground projects and 8,600 MW rooftop ones) accounted for 30.6% of the total capacity of the whole national system, in particular, the solar power (ground and rooftop projects) reached 23.9%.

The Prime Minister (PM) has just directed the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), local authorities and  Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to review issues related to the solar power development in Vietnam (Official Document No. 185 / TTg-CN).

The Electricity and Renewable Energy Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade - MOIT) has just issued a written document to the Vietnam Energy Association (VEA) on the petition about “Extending the FIT mechanism for the wind and solar power projects” (according to the Paper No. 2040/ PC-VPCP dated December 7, 2020, from the Government Office to the MOIT).

Xuan Thien - Ea Sup solar power plant officially energized the phase 1 of the project after completing 100% of the construction and installation volume, eligible for energizing 500 kV transmission lines and substations.