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.

Regional power trades are on the rise in South East Asia. Historically, Laos is a major exporter of mostly hydropower in the region, reaching nearly 2 billion US$ in 2022 to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. And the exported amount keeps growing. For example, Laos and Vietnam have signed another 3000 to 5000 MW of power […]

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 […]