Clarifying the promulgation of electricity generation price framework
From August 27 to 29, the National Assembly Standing Committee organized the 6th full-time conference of National Assembly Delegates, term XV to discuss and comment on 12 draft laws submitted to the National Assembly at the 8th Session, including the Electricity Law project (amended).
The amendment of this law is expected to meet the goal of implementing the Party's policies in the energy sector and to build a synchronized, competitive and transparent energy market.
Giving comments, National Assembly delegates said that it is necessary to innovate the contents prescribed in the Electricity Law to improve the feasibility and effectiveness in enforcing electricity laws, meeting the requirements of the development of the electricity industry in general. general and competitive electricity market in particular, moving towards building a complete competitive electricity retail market. In particular, the focus is on adjusting the electricity price mechanism according to the market mechanism, with state regulation...
Talking about the operating principles of the competitive electricity market, delegate Nguyen Manh Hung - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Economic Committee - said that Article 51 of the draft law stipulates a number of mechanisms to allow the purchase of electricity. Sell electricity directly from producers and users.
Delegates proposed adding a mechanism that allows subjects, organizations and individuals to have the right to directly buy and sell electricity within a certain range, so as not to affect the general safety of the national electricity network; At the same time, there is a more specific mechanism to create equality, openness, transparency, and non-discrimination among participants in the competitive electricity market.
Therefore, it is necessary to amend and supplement to clarify the promulgation of the electricity generation price frame recently, which is the average electricity generation price frame of the electricity generating unit and clarify the case where the parties sign an electricity purchase contract. through bidding.
Issue electricity price tables to ensure uniformity
Standing Member of the National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee Vu Tuan Anh agrees with the viewpoint of implementing a mechanism to cross-subsidize electricity prices between customer groups and cross-subsidize electricity prices between regions, but there is a need to implementation roadmap.
According to the delegate, it is necessary to implement the principles of the Price Law, in which, if electricity is determined to be a special good or service, the Prime Minister should be assigned to regulate electricity prices, in which, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Finance These are the advisory units that help the Prime Minister promulgate electricity price lists to ensure uniformity.
Talking about the mechanism for managing and regulating electricity prices, Mr. Nguyen Tien Thoa - Chairman of the Vietnam Valuation Association - said that the electricity price policy has been clearly stated in Resolution No. 55-NQ/TW. Therefore, in order to legislate the guiding opinions on prices of Resolution No. 55-NQ/TW, it is proposed to remove the specific regulations as in the draft law and incorporate the content of "Principles for electricity pricing" including : Pricing principles, valuation bases, valuation methods, price adjustments and authority to price and adjust prices.
At the same time, for social policies in prices that the draft law mentions such as: The Government directs research to develop plans to support electricity bill reduction; electricity prices in border areas and islands; The state supports electricity bills for poor households and social policy households. The expert suggested that these contents should not be included in the price policy but must be included in a separate section on electricity consumption support policies, ensuring implemented according to the guiding viewpoint of Resolution No. 55-NQ/TW: There must be a separation between electricity prices and social policies... and the State regulates appropriately through market tools (taxes, fees of funds ...) and appropriate social security policies.
