Vietnam PM requests responsibility for Power Development Plan VIII implementation delays to be pinpointed

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested finding out which entities and individuals are accountable for the delay in completing the implemenation scheme for the National Power Development Plan VIII (PDP VIII).

The instruction was delivered to Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son and Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien on Wednesday.

Accordingly, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister are assigned to sign on the supplements and updates to the PDP VIII implementation scheme before December 30, 2024.

"The supplemented and updated plan must ensure fairness, not allowing group interests to arise and violations to occur as before," says the instruction.

PDP VIII was issued in May 2023. However, only after nearly a year, on April 1, 2024, the scheme for implementing PDP VIII was issued. "The problem is the introduced scheme is not yet complete due to entanglements."

The Prime Minister had requested the entanglements to be resolved and rules supplemented and updated within April 2024 to ensure efficient implemention of PDPVIII. However, up to now, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has still not yet completed the implentation scheme.

“It is too slow compared to the request,” says the dispatch.

Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son was assigned to direct the Ministry of Industry and Trade to pinpoint which entities and individuals are responsible for the delay in submitting proposals on supplements and updates to the implementation scheme for PDPVIII. This task includes the removal of entanglements for 154 renewable energy projects.

Reports on this task must be submitted before January 25, 2025, the instruction says.