Facing the difficult power supply situation, in recent days, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha have consecutive held meetings, directing solutions to ensure the power supply in the dry season in 2023 and in the coming time, especially for the North.
At the meeting on June 3, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha directed MoIT and EVN to focus on researching and synchronously implementing solutions for power supply, especially the most effective implementation of energy-saving measures. In which, on June 2023, MoIT and EVN are required to study, guide, or propose to competent authorities for synchronous mechanisms and policies, in accordance with the provisions of law, to deploy self-production and self-consumption rooftop solar power (research for State agencies, armed forces, non-business units, schools, hospitals, residential houses, etc.), ensuring efficiency and contributing to reducing difficulties in power supply shortly.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha proposing MoIT to acquire, inherit, and adjust standards on scale, scope, and capacity to avoid business solar power production facilities from taking advantage of preferential policies for rooftop solar power
On June 6, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Dispatch No. 517/CD-TTg with many urgent instructions to effectively mobilize all resources, making the best efforts in directing and executing synchronously and effective solutions to ensure power supply; proactively develop flexible scenarios to cope with difficulties in power supply; highly focus on effectively implementing solutions to enhance electricity-saving, especially in June 2023.
Then on June 8, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha signed Directive No. 20/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister on enhancing electricity-saving in the 2023 - 2025 period and the following years. In particular, it is required by the Deputy Prime Minister to maximize and mobilize resources to install and use rooftop solar power systems and solar water heating systems to reduce electricity consumption from the national power system.
At the meeting, leaders of the MoIT and EVN specifically reported on inadequacies, difficulties, and obstacles in the process of installing rooftop solar power systems according to Decision No. 13/2020/QD-TTg on the encouraging mechanism for solar power development in Vietnam on April 6, 2020.
Representatives of the ministries and branches participating in the meeting also analyzed and clarified the causes of the above inadequacies and limitations, and proposed measures to remove them, following the point of view in Power Plan 8 as "prioritize and adopt breakthrough policies to promote the solar power development on residential's and buildings’ roofs, especially in areas at risk of power shortage such as the North, and self-production and self-consumption rooftop solar power”.
Concluding the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister stated that solar energy and renewable energy have not been regulated in legal documents and decrees, so there should be dynamic and creative mechanisms in pilot implementation. The immediate task is to immediately issue mechanisms and policies to overcome the shortcomings and limitations in Decision No. 13/2020/QD-TTg and make a breakthrough, promoting the development of rooftop solar power.
The Deputy Prime Minister required the MoIT to urgently propose to the Prime Minister promulgating mechanisms and policies to encourage investment and mobilize rooftop solar power resources for daily’s life and agencies, offices, and business activities.
Management agencies must create favorable conditions, provide technical and safety instructions, reduce taxes for manufacturers and importers of solar power equipment, and support people in purchasing, etc.
The Deputy Prime Minister required the MoIT to acquire, inherit, and adjust technical regulations and standards on the scale, scope, capacity, etc. to avoid business solar power production facilities from taking advantage of preferential policies for rooftop solar power; maximal clarify and simplify administrative procedures under the jurisdiction of the Ministries of Industry and Trade, Finance, Planning and Investment, Natural Resources and Environment, and Public Security, etc.; build a suitable price bracket for the grid-connected rooftop solar power, etc.