Specifically, to encourage the development of self-consumption rooftop solar power, the Government of Vietnam has promulgated 9 policies as follows:
(1) Organizations and individuals installing self-consumption rooftop solar power systems shall be exempted from licenses to engage in electricity and limitations of capacity output in the following cases:
- The mentioned solar power system is not connected with the national power system;
- The organization or individual installs a system of devices to prevent backflow into the national power system;
- Households and separate houses develop self-consumption rooftop solar power with a capacity below 100 kW.
(2) Organizations and individuals installing self-consumption rooftop solar power systems with a capacity of 1.000 kW or more and selling excess electricity to the national power system shall carry out procedures for electricity planning (excluding cases where the capacity is subject to the capacity scale according to planning or plans to implement planning allocated locally) and licensing of electricity operations according to the law.
(3) Self-consumption solar power is entitled to preferential policies on tax according to the current tax law.
(4) Self-consumption rooftop solar power is entitled to simplified administrative procedures according to relevant current laws.
(5) Construction works with installed self-consumption rooftop solar power are exempted from revision and addition to land planning for energy and functions according to the law.
(6) Self-consumption rooftop solar power systems of households, separate houses; offices and works being public property are determined as technological equipment attached to construction works.
(7) Regarding self-consumption rooftop solar power systems connected with the national power system and subject to the capacity scale according to planning or plans to implement planning and self-consumption rooftop solar power systems connected with the national power system of households and separate houses with a capacity below 100kW, excess electricity may be sold to the national power system but no more than 20% of the actual capacity:
- EVN shall pay organizations and individuals for the excess electricity;
- The purchase price of excess electricity shall be equal to the average market price in the preceding year announced by the electricity system and market operation units to ensure conformable encouragement in each period of development of the national power system;
- Self-consumption rooftop solar power systems installed on the roof of construction works that are offices or works being public property shall not be eligible for engagement in excess electricity trading.
(8) Households and separate houses developing self-consumption rooftop solar power systems are exempted from or not required to revise business licenses.
(9) Organizations and individuals are encouraged to install electricity storage systems to ensure safe and stable operations of power systems.
See more details in Decree No. 135/2024/ND-CP , effective as of October 22, 2024.
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