The solar power case “calls for help”: there will be an interdisciplinary meeting to solve it
While solar power investors are facing the risk of being sold by banks, a huge amount of money is kept by the electricity industry, despite the fact that they are still taking electricity from investors and selling it back to consumers.
On May 30, talking with Tuoi Tre Online, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Toan – director of Binh Duong Department of Industry and Trade – said that the department had received a “call for help” from businesses that are investors in solar power.
Previously, Tuoi Tre newspaper had articles reflecting “Solar power has been sold for more than a year, and now it requires a ‘construction permit'” (May 27), “Solar power ‘calls for help’, why is it that?” ?” (May 29)…
“The Department of Industry and Trade of Binh Duong province will chair and coordinate with relevant agencies including the Management Board of Industrial Parks, the Department of Construction and the People’s Committees of districts, towns and electricity companies to discuss and take measures to participate in this project.” to the People’s Committee of Binh Duong province to remove obstacles,” Toan said.
According to the leader of Binh Duong Department of Industry and Trade, recently, investment in solar energy has contributed quite effectively to stabilizing the power source for production plants in the area, as well as contributing to promoting energy efficiency. renewable quality, environmental protection.
If only the rooftop solar power alone, the total output in Binh Duong has reached over 800 MW.
Meanwhile, due to difficulties in construction procedures, power purchase and sale contracts, even though they have been implemented for more than a year, were suddenly stopped by units of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN). “threatened” to terminate the contract.
“For each MW of solar power, the payment amount is at least VND 200 million, the total amount that the electricity industry still takes from investors but does not pay from March 2022 to now can reach hundreds to thousands of dollars. billion.
While the electricity industry sells it back to the people to collect money immediately and “pocket” a huge amount of money, many investors selling electricity to EVN are currently “distorting their faces” because they have not had money to pay the bank for many months” – a representative of a Solar power investment enterprises said.
The representative of Binh Duong Province Electricity Company also sent a document to the Southern Power Corporation to report investors’ feedback, proposing to remove obstacles in the electricity industry’s request from electricity investors. Sun (including households and individuals investing in their own homes and investors in factories) must supplement with business permits, construction safety documents, fire prevention…
In Dong Nai, leaders of the Provincial People’s Committee had a meeting with departments and districts in mid-May, 2022. However, Dong Nai authorities have not yet come up with a solution to solve specific problems for solar power projects that are being stopped, but will summarize problems to propose to central agencies to guide them. .
Meanwhile, a representative of the Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Industry and Trade said that one of the current problems is due to the small-scale nature of rooftop solar power projects, so regulations on construction, fire protection, environment… will be managed by the locality and each locality has its own requirements in these regulations.
Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Trade can only provide general guidance on requiring investors to strictly comply with the law on these types of permits, and how to do so must be based on investors actively seeking understand local regulations to meet.
Source: Tuoi Tre Online
