VIET NAM: Decision of the Prime Minister No. 22/1999/QD-TTg of 1999 Ratifying The Project On Rural Electricity

Meta Data
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
1999
Effective Start Year: 
1999
Effective End Year: 
2000
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Programme, Other
Economic Sector: 
Power
Energy Types: 
Power, Renewable, Bioenergy, Hydropower, Solar, Wind
Issued by: 
The Prime Minister of Government
Source: 
Vanbanphapluat.co
File: 
Decision No. 22/1999/QD-TTg of 1999
Overall Summary: 
A Decision to ratify the project on rural electricity till the year 2000.
Access
Bi-, multi-lateral mechanisms to expand access: 
Sources of capital for the establishment of medium-voltage lines, transformer stations and voltage meters: - The State budget's capital;- The basic depreciation fund; - The preferential credit loan capital under the annual State plan; - The international aid capital under various agreements.---The People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to closely coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and the Vietnam Electricity Corporation in elaborating the planning, plans and investment projects, managing and trading in rural power grids, ensuring that the rural electricity projects to the year 2000 will achieve the set objectives; and exercise the State management over the electric power-related activities in their respective localities.
Energy access action plan: 
The development of rural electricity networks, including the building and upgrading of the existing power system, must be in line with the planning and in association with the rearrangement of population in each locality; the projects must be arranged according to their importance and priority, then implemented step by step according to the country's financial balance. To give priority to the areas with high possibility of quickly raising the agricultural productivity and efficiency along the direction of modernization, the areas with convertible economic structures and the areas important to national security and defense.---The electrification of rural areas must go hand in hand with the development of the national power grid and the development of on-spot electricity generation, such as mini- hydro-electric power stations, wind power, solar power, biogenetic gas-power.---To concentrate on improving power grids of the already electrified communes and in places where such grids are seriously degraded and the electricity is poorly supplied [...]---To step up the process of rural electrification, the provincial/municipal People's Committees shall elaborate projects and submit them to the higher-level authorities for approval according to current regulations.---For a number of mountainous and island communes, which, from now till the year 2000, are incapable of accessing to the national power grid, the local authorities shall elaborate projects to establish the on-spot power generation sources, suited to the conditions of each locality, such as the diesel power generation, mini- hydroelectric power stations, solar power.
Energy access targets: 
To supply electricity, by the end of 2000, to all provinces and districts nationwide. To strive for the target that 80% of communes with 60% of peasants' households therein will be supplied with electricity for their daily life and production [...].
Renewable Energy
RE action plans: 
For a number of mountainous and island communes, which, from now till the year 2000, are incapable of accessing to the national power grid, the local authorities shall elaborate projects to establish the on-spot power generation sources, suited to the conditions of each locality, such as the [...] mini- hydroelectric power stations, solar power.
Energy Supply and Infrastructure
Infrastructure development priorities: 
The development of rural electricity networks, including the building and upgrading of the existing power system, must be in line with the planning and in association with the rearrangement of population in each locality; the projects must be arranged according to their importance and priority, then implemented step by step according to the country's financial balance. To give priority to the areas with high possibility of quickly raising the agricultural productivity and efficiency along the direction of modernization, the areas with convertible economic structures and the areas important to national security and defense.---The electrification of rural areas must go hand in hand with the development of the national power grid and the development of on-spot electricity generation, such as mini- hydro-electric power stations, wind power, solar power, biogenetic gas-power.---To concentrate on improving power grids of the already electrified communes and in places where such grids are seriously degraded and the electricity is poorly supplied [...]
Investment
Electricity wholesale markets: 
To encourage all economic sectors to take part in the investment and trading of the low-voltage grids in rural areas by the mode of investing capital in building low-voltage grids, buying wholesale electricity from the Vietnam Electricity Corporation at the price fixed by the State for the retail thereof to family households at the prices accepted by the Government Pricing Commission.
Investment climate development: 
For a number of mountainous and island communes, [...] The State encourages different economic sectors inside and outside the country to take part in the investment and trading of the on-spot power sources.