Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son has signed Decision No. 14/2025/QD-TTg regulating the retail price structure of electricity.
This Decision stipulates the structure of retail electricity price lists; electricity price mechanisms suitable for groups of electricity customers; mechanisms to support electricity bills for living purposes for poor households and social policy households;
Electricity prices in rural areas, mountainous areas, border areas, and islands that are not connected to the national grid as prescribed in Point a, Clause 13, Article 5, Point b and Point c, Clause 3, Article 50 of the Electricity Law 2024.
According to the Decision, poor households according to the criteria of relevant legal regulations in each period will be supported with electricity bills for living purposes, the monthly support level is equivalent to the electricity bill for using 30 kWh calculated at the current retail price of level 1 household electricity.
Social policy households according to the criteria prescribed by the Prime Minister (not eligible for electricity bill support according to the above regulations) and with the amount of electricity used for domestic purposes in the month not exceeding 50 kWh are supported with electricity bills equivalent to electricity bills for use of 30 kWh calculated according to the current retail price of level 1 domestic electricity.
The budget for supporting electricity bills for poor households and social policy households is arranged from the state budget and other legal financial sources according to the law.
The central budget supports localities in implementing electricity bill support according to the principle of targeted support from the central budget to local budgets to implement social security policies decided by competent authorities depending on the period.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade is responsible for regulating and guiding the implementation of retail electricity prices for electricity user groups; electricity sales prices for electricity retail units.
The Minister of Industry and Trade decides in an administrative document on peak, off-peak, and normal hours in accordance with the electricity use situation of the power system in each stage.
This decision takes effect from May 29, 2025.
