It can be affirmed that the issuance of the Decree on rooftop solar power development is necessary for many reasons.
First of all, the policy of developing renewable energy, including solar energy, has been clearly stated in Resolution No. 55-NQ/TW of the Politburo on the orientation of Vietnam's national energy development strategy to 2030, with a vision to 2045, and in the Power Plan VIII. The advantage of rooftop solar power is that it is green and clean. Therefore, developing this power source will contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the environment; on the other hand, it will also meet the demand for on-site energy for daily life and production, thereby reducing the load on the national power grid and transmission system - thereby reducing investment costs for the electricity industry and reducing power loss.
In addition, since Decision No. 13/2020/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on the mechanism to encourage the development of solar power has not been applied since January 1, 2021, there has been a "legal gap" since then. Therefore, in the past, the development of rooftop solar power for the purpose of self-use, self-production and self-consumption without generating electricity or selling to the national grid has encountered many difficulties and has not been implemented.
Furthermore, in Resolution No. 98/2023/QH15 on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City, the National Assembly has allowed the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to decide on the use of roofs that ensure technical conditions of administrative headquarters, public service units, headquarters of agencies and units identified as public assets in the city to install solar power systems to provide electricity for the operations of those headquarters. To implement this mechanism, the city also needs more specific instructions.
In such a context, it is necessary to develop and promulgate a Decree with specific regulations on the development of rooftop solar power to create a legal corridor as well as a mechanism to attract and encourage businesses and people to invest in rooftop solar power for their own use. The Decree is also a tool to help state agencies effectively manage this field and contribute to implementing the National Assembly's decisions.
Looking forward to the promulgation of the Decree on rooftop solar power development, the business community also hopes that the Decree will regulate transparently and clearly the administrative procedures. Because, according to the reflection of many businesses, the installation of rooftop solar power is still facing many difficulties. In particular, the administrative procedures on construction, fire prevention and fighting and environmental protection for rooftop solar power are still not really clear and are applied differently in localities. For example, for construction procedures, some localities consider rooftop solar power as a construction project, but some places consider it as additional equipment, so different procedures are applied. For fire prevention and fighting procedures, some places do not consult the Department of Industry and Trade, some places the fire prevention and fighting agency proactively asks the Department of Industry and Trade, and some places the fire prevention and fighting agency requires businesses to ask the Department of Industry and Trade.
One of the most important measures to develop rooftop solar power is to have clear, transparent regulations and uniform application of administrative procedures. Therefore, the dossier proposing to develop a Decree needs to supplement policies on reviewing legal regulations in other fields related to rooftop solar power installation and propose amendments to this Decree so that businesses and people can apply it conveniently.
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