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Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha expressed that developing rooftop solar power projects is an urgent task and an important solution to mobilize social resources to implement Power Development Planning VIII (PDP VIII). Therefore, mechanisms and policies to encourage organizations and individuals to invest in rooftop solar power projects are consistent policies.

Updating the status of receiving documents, results of negotiations, ratifies of electricity prices, signing the power purchase agreements, acceptance of projects... for transitional renewable energy projects, Vietnam Energy Magazine cited data from the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) updated on the morning of October 2, 2023, for readers to refer to.

The starting construction ceremony of Phuoc Thai 2 and Phuoc Thai 3 solar power projects has just taken place in Phuoc Thai commune, Ninh Phuoc district, Ninh Thuan province.

According to Vietnam News Agency (VNA), on September 11, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a loan agreement worth 13.8 million USD to finance Vietnam Green Yellow Smart Solutions Company (Green Yellow) to deploy the rooftop solar power system for increasing the clean energy supply at affordable prices for business and manufacturing customers. This is ADB's first grant in its rooftop solar power investment portfolio for the production and business segment in Vietnam.

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.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has just worked with leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), and a number of the relevant ministries and agencies to implement the goal in the Power Development Planning VIII (PDP VIII), which is 2030 Vietnam will have 50% of office buildings and 50% of residential houses use self-produce and self-consumption rooftop solar power projects (for on-site consumption, not selling electricity into the national electricity system).

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to accelerate the process of issuing electricity licenses for wind and solar power projects that have been completed but have not yet been put into operation.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has just sent a document to the Ministry of Justice requesting the review the effectiveness of legal documents of the Government and the Prime Minister.

In order to negotiate and agree on the electricity prices of a part of the power project/the whole power project without electricity prices, the Power Trading Company (EVNEPTC) has just sent a written document to request the solar and wind power investors, to check the legal documents of the projects complying with the legal regulations on investment and construction or not. Especially, the evaluating documents of the power system operation units about the absorption ability of the national power system, as well as the ability to release the capacity of the power grid related to the project.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has just issued the announcement No 148 EVN-KD-TCKT dated January 10, 2023, to the Electricity Corporations, Electricity Telecommunications, and Information Technology Companies about the purchase prices of the rooftop solar power projects in 2023 as follows: