The long-awaited regulation relating to the direct power purchase mechanism has been officially issued in Vietnam. The key highlights include: Direct power purchase can be conducted in 2 forms: Opportunities unlocked The DPPA Decree 80 re-ignites the interest of more local and international developers in the Vietnam’s energy sector, in particular the renewables.    After a […]

Vietnam office of VDB Loi provides an outline of key points that investors need to know about the newly adopted Power Development Plan in Vietnam, provide a link to the list of included energy projects and also a summary of the next round of regulatory developments that are expected over 2023 in Vietnam.

VDB Loi Vietnam has prepared an updated version of guide answering to the most frequent questions relating to the provision of foreign loans to borrowers in Vietnam.  This include the process of loans registration, available security package and key parties that need to be involved and their roles. Version in Japanese: Foreign Loans for Vietnamese […]

Ministry of Industry and Trade approved ceiling tariffs for the transitional solar and wind power projects. Please refer to the summary note for details.

Over the last few years a lot of attention in Vietnam was focused on the possible rate of tariff that should apply to the transitional solar and wind projects, i.e. projects that were initiated earlier, but did not meet the deadline of the previously introduced feed-in-tariff. The opportunities to become eligible for such feed-in-tariff expired […]

Nearly nine months after June 30 2019, when the preferential price for solar power of US9.35 cents per kWh expired, the new price of solar power has been officially fixed. This ends the anxious moments from investors/ developers during the period when various proposals on the FIT submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade […]