On the afternoon of December 4, continuing the 10th Session, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien presented a report on the issuance of a Resolution of the National Assembly on mechanisms and policies for national energy development in the 2026-2030 period.
The draft Resolution consists of 8 chapters and 24 Articles.
In which, Chapter III includes 5 Articles regulating investment in the construction of power projects, including: Regulations on removing investment policies for power grid projects after receiving opinions from the National Assembly Committees.
Based on the proposal of an enterprise with 100% state capital or an enterprise with 100% charter capital, the People's Committee at the provincial level decides to approve this enterprise as an investor in transmission grid projects and works in the power development plan or the power supply network development plan in the provincial planning;
Regulate the exemption of operating time and the number of years of financial statements that need to be provided in the condition of borrowing ODA capital and prioritizing the allocation and funding from the state budget to increase charter capital for a single-member Company Limited operating the National Power System and Market (NSMO) to implement infrastructure projects serving the operation of the power system and the power market;
Specific regulations on winning electricity prices in bidding to select investors to implement electricity business investment projects due to the prolonged negotiation process of electricity purchase and sale contracts, leading to slow project implementation progress;
Supplementing regulations on state-owned and private enterprises participating in research and investment in the development of small-scale nuclear power.
Chapter IV consists of 5 Articles, regulating a number of contents on offshore wind power, including: handling costs for 100% state-owned enterprises to perform tasks; regulating the authority to approve investment policies, bidding to select investors for provincial People's Committees based on project capacity gathering points;
Mechanism for assigning tasks to a number of reputable, branded enterprises with capacity to carry out large-scale offshore wind power development tasks associated with ensuring national defense, security, and protecting sovereignty of seas and islands.
Chapter V includes 1 Article, regulating to promote and more effectively implement the direct power purchase and sale mechanism (DPPA) in the spirit of Resolution 70-NQ/TW of the Politburo, in which the subjects are expanded to allow electricity retailers in industrial parks, economic zones, and export processing zones to directly participate in the electricity purchase and sale mechanism.
Supplementing regulations on electricity purchase prices through the DPPA mechanism negotiated by the parties themselves, reaching an agreed conclusion, not following general regulations on the electricity purchase price framework and expressing the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in regulating the scale of large electricity customers when participating in the DPPA mechanism.
Chapter VI consists of 2 Articles, stipulating that for investment projects on the list of important and urgent projects, oil and gas works and coal of the country, it is not necessary to carry out procedures for approving investment policies.
The assignment of enterprises with 100% state capital or enterprises with 100% state capital shall be for projects, works of oil and gas and coal of national importance and urgency or projects located in areas sensitive to national defense and security.
