The national electricity development plan for the period of
2021-2030, with a vision to 2045 (Power Master Plan 8) is a
particularly important national sector planning.
On 31 May 2022, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien
said that the draft PDP 8 has been approved by the Appraisal
Council and submitted to the Prime Minister for consideration and
approval. It is expected that in June 2022, Power Master Plan 8 can
be approved.
The draft PDP 8 was first submitted to the Prime Minister by the
Ministry of Industry and Trade on 26 March 2021. After analyzing
and evaluating, it was found that several issues still need to be
corrected, such as the scale of power source development, the
structure of power sources, and the unreasonable regional balance,
leading to the requirement for investment in the transmission grid.
inter-regional is very large as well as a number of problems in
terms of policy mechanisms and solutions to manage the
implementation
