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Vietnam rooftop solar records major boom as more than 9GW installed in 2020
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- walrus01 6y agoWhat does the Vietnamese grid pay in feed in tariff per kWh?
- toomuchtodo 6y agohttps://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/04/07/vietnam-finally-unveils-new-fits-for-large-scale-rooftop-floating-pv/ 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."
- BelenusMordred 6y agoThat'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.
- zeristor 6y agoActually 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-vietnam-put-solar-panels-on-everything https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2021-01-22/in-2020-viet...
- toomuchtodo 6y agopv tech is a fine source, as it's not paywalled like Bloomberg.
- Proven 6y agoMeh. That eliminates virtually none of traditional power generating capacity because utilities can't count on any of it being available when they need it. It does eliminate some OPEX as traditional power plans can run at a lower utilization rate when feed-in is significant (which may be almost never)