Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a dispatch directing relevant ministries, agencies, and corporations to take measures to ensure the supply of electricity and petroleum products into the future.

Electricity and petroleum product supplies have faced difficulties in recent times, resulting in power shortages in some areas of Vietnam’s north during the summer and a lack of petroleum products that first appeared in some areas in late 2022, according to the dispatch.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Industry and Trade to quickly complete a plan to supply sufficient electricity for production and daily life over the remaining months of 2023 and into 2024. The ministry is to report on such plans to the Prime Minister before September 15.

It was also directed to prepare investment in sub-projects of the 500-kV national transmission line, circuit 3, from central Quang Binh province to northern Hung Yen province, with implementation to begin in September.

The ministry was also instructed to urgently complete and submit to relevant authorities mechanisms to encourage the development of self-produced and self-consumed rooftop solar power and direct power purchase agreements (DPPA), and to report to the Prime Minister before September 15.

Regarding the supply of petroleum products, Prime Minister Chinh asked relevant ministries, agencies and PetroVietnam and Petrolimex to take measures to balance supply and demand and ensure sufficient supply of petroleum products for production and daily life.