It is necessary to clarify whether the responsibility for issuing FiT prices is in accordance with principles and criteria or not.

There is a "movement" of massive investment in solar and wind power.

On October 12, speaking at the 27th Session of the National Assembly Standing Committee to consider and give opinions on conducting thematic supervision on "Implementation of policies and laws on energy development in the 2016-2021 period", Chairman of the National Assembly's Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh expressed concerns about the quality assessment of sub-sector plans such as coal, oil, renewable energy, wind energy; how are the interconnections between sub-sectors, and whether the issuance of sub-sector plans first and the master plan later can be overcome? Because, according to Chairman of the Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh, the master plan must be issued first, then the sub-sector plans.

Chairman of the National Assembly's Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh said that the monitoring delegation had made the assessment that the implementation of the planning of energy sub-sectors still had many shortcomings, especially in organizing the VII electricity planning and the adjusted VII electricity planning for the development of wind power, solar power, and small hydropower.

Need to clarify the responsibility of selling price according to principles and criteria or not image 1 — Chairman of the National Assembly's Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh speaks.

According to the Chairman of the Economic Committee, in the recent short time, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued a FiT price (supported electricity price schedule) with a limited time limit, and many massive investment movements in solar and wind power have appeared. Recently, many projects have been completed and put into operation, some projects enjoy FiT price, some projects do not, or some projects enjoy part of FiT price...

Therefore, Chairman of the Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh suggested that it is necessary to clarify the cause and responsibility of issuing FiT prices, whether they are in accordance with principles and criteria, and whether they are fair among businesses or not? At the same time, he said that this issue can be assessed as causing loss and waste to society.

In a number of recent meetings with voters, delegates and voters in the coal industry were interested in the roadmap for the eighth power plan. Vietnam has committed to COP26 to achieve zero net emissions by 2050. The coal industry in Quang Ninh currently maintains about 40 million tons/year, gradually decreasing by 2040 and no longer using coal by 2050. The Chairman of the Economic Committee stated that the story of ensuring national energy security must provide enough coal for power plants and other manufacturing industries, but after more than 10 years, this has had to stop. Therefore, coal workers expressed concern about this issue and wondered about the economic structure of Quang Ninh, and what the orientation will be in the coming time in the context that this locality has 5-6 coal plants in operation.

Need to clarify whether the sale of the product is in accordance with the principles and criteria picture 2 — Overview of the meeting.

There needs to be an assessment of the bottlenecks and obstacles in managing the prices of electricity, coal, gas, and gasoline.

Also speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong agreed with many contents of the report of the Supervisory Delegation, noting that the dossier of supervision results was fully prepared and had scientific research significance.

To continue to complete the report, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong suggested further clarification of a number of issues. Accordingly, it is recommended that the report on monitoring results should closely follow the resolutions of the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee related to energy. The Vice Chairman of the National Assembly cited Resolution 134 of the 15th National Assembly setting specific targets for energy monitoring, Resolution 74 of the 15th National Assembly on practicing thrift and combating waste, and the Resolution on the National Assembly Standing Committee's questioning of energy issues.

The Vice Chairman of the National Assembly emphasized that these are important resolutions that set out specific tasks for the country's energy issues. However, the monitoring results report still lacks this content, so it is recommended that it be reviewed and supplemented.

Need to clarify the responsibility of selling price according to principles and criteria or not image 3 — Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong speaks.

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong stated that it is necessary to evaluate the overcoming of hydropower problems according to Resolution 134 in order to propose key measures to solve the hydropower problem, the problems of previous terms and what has been done by hydropower so far. Emphasizing that this is an issue that people are very concerned about, especially in the face of subsidence and earthquakes due to the impact of hydropower, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong raised the issue of how this content is evaluated, how the overcoming of hydropower problems has ensured the requirements of Resolution 134 and proposed key measures in the coming time.

The Vice Chairman of the National Assembly stated that it is necessary to assess the recent bottlenecks and difficulties in managing electricity prices, coal prices, gas prices, and gasoline prices, their causes and responsibilities. To further assess the current implementation of the Power Plan VII, to adjust the problems between planning and power transmission when there is excess electricity but it cannot be connected to the national grid... These are issues that need to clearly identify the causes and specific responsibilities of local agencies and managers to propose measures in the coming time, and to make recommendations to the Government to direct the resolution of key issues.

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong also proposed identifying key solutions on scenarios to ensure energy safety; key solutions on the issue of master planning with sub-sector planning, handling the inadequacies of sectoral planning that cause great waste of social and business resources when there is a mismatch between capacity and power transmission; key solutions on energy infrastructure, science and technology, energy technology and the energy market.

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