Vietnam's Ministry of Transport said last week it was receiving feedback on a new draft decree to encourage rooftop solar power. According to the draft, rooftop solar energy will be integrated into the national grid for self-use, but cannot be sold to other organizations or individuals or fed back to the grid.

While this has a negligible impact on independent power producers managing commercial and industrial projects, it sends another rather negative signal for solar development in the country.

According to local media reports, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology first proposed in August that it would propose an amendment to rooftop solar power, aiming to promote the development of self-consumption of rooftop solar power.

In May, the Vietnamese government announced it would invest $135 billion in an energy strategy aimed at equipping half of the country's residential rooftops with photovoltaic power generation projects under a net metering scheme and making Vietnam a net exporter by the end of the decade, a key key to the strategy. pillar.

According to the latest data provided by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Vietnam's installed solar capacity at the end of last year was 18 GW.