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Saturday, July 13, 2024 | 10:16 pm GMT+7
State-owned Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the nation’s sole electrical energy distributor, should purchase extra rooftop solar energy from properties and places of work for VND671 ($0.026) per kWh.
A proposal to this impact was made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on the request of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, who requested for a scheme to buy extra solar energy produced by self-use of roof set up.
Solar panels on the roof of an industrial park in Vietnam. Photo courtesy of Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper.
The proposed value is 58-63% decrease than what EVN presently pays industrial solar energy farms, in keeping with a ministry report launched Thursday.
This price can be adjusted yearly to match the event phases of the facility system, it mentioned.
The MoIT proposal additionally features a most offtake quantity of 10% from self-use installations.
Vietnam presently has about 103,000 rooftop solar energy tasks, with a complete put in capability of greater than 9,500 MW. According to the nationwide energy growth plan for the 2021-2030 interval with a imaginative and prescient to 2050 (PDP VIII), the capability of this energy supply will improve by 2,600 MW in 2030.
According to the MoIT, the federal government is encouraging the set up of self-use rooftop solar energy techniques for assuaging monetary prices, however not for enterprise functions or incentives as was finished earlier than.
The new proposal for organizations and people to attach their extra rooftop energy to the nationwide grid is a “favor”, the ministry mentioned.
Industry observers have additionally famous one other constructive renewable growth in Vietnam. A brand new authorities order permits factories to instantly buy electrical energy from industrial renewable energy suppliers via Direct Power Purchase Agreements beginning July 3.
