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Vietnam rooftop solar records major boom as more than 9GW installed in 2020 (pv-tech.org)
34 points by zeristor on Jan 24, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Actually I probably should have pointed direct to the article/podcast where I heard it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2021-01-22/in-2020-viet...


pv tech is a fine source, as it's not paywalled like Bloomberg.


What does the Vietnamese grid pay in feed in tariff per kWh?


https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/04/07/vietnam-finally-unvei...

"The new purchase price for electricity generated by ground-mounted PV plants is $0.0709/kWh over a period of 20 years, and $0.0838/kWh for rooftop PV arrays. The government will also offer a FIT rate of $0.0769/kWh for floating solar projects, according to Decision 13/2020/QD-TTg, which was issued by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday.

PV developers will only qualify for the new rates if they put their projects into commercial operation by Dec. 31, 2020. All other projects will be subject to price determination through a competitive bidding process, state-run utility EVN said in an online statement."


That's a really good feed-in rate. Average residential usage prices would be around that, Vietnam has quite cheap power.

Elsewhere in the world it's common to only get a fraction for feeding back into the network.




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