Electricity price adjustment increases but does not affect poor households and social policy households

According to EVN, to ensure electricity supply for socio -economic development and people's daily life, EVN has been implementing the plan to supply electricity and operate the national power system in 2025. In particular, the growth rate of commercial electricity in 2025 is expected to be about 12.2%, the total electricity output of the entire system in 2025 will increase by about 33.6 billion kWh compared to 2024.

Regarding the power source structure in 2025, low-cost hydropower sources can only provide about 25% of the total system output; the remaining 75% of the system output is provided by high-cost power sources such as coal, gas, oil, renewable energy, etc.

For the system's additional electricity output, it is basically necessary to mobilize from high-cost electricity sources, such as: oil-fired thermal power sources, liquefied natural gas (LNG) turbine thermal power sources and imported coal-fired thermal power sources.

In addition, in recent times, the foreign exchange rate (USD) has been unpredictable and increasing. This has affected the cost of power generation, which accounts for about 83% of the cost of electricity production.

In the context of power generation costs tending to increase in recent years, EVN and its member units have drastically implemented cost reduction and savings with the requirement that by 2025, regular and major repair costs must be saved at least 10% and closely coordinate with the National Power System and Electricity Market Operation Company Limited to optimally operate the power system and electricity market to ensure safe and continuous power supply.

At a press conference to exchange information related to the operation of ensuring electricity supply on the afternoon of May 9, EVN representative affirmed that basically this electricity price adjustment will ensure that poor households and policy families are not affected significantly. Poor households and social policy households will continue to receive support according to the provisions of Decision No. 28/2014/QD-TTg dated April 7, 2014 of the Prime Minister .

In particular, poor households are supported with a monthly support level equivalent to the amount of electricity used 30 kWh/household/month; social policy households with the amount of electricity used no more than 50 kWh/month are supported with a monthly support level equivalent to the amount of electricity used 30 kWh/household/month according to the Government 's policy.

Load transfer, ensuring electricity supply for people, especially in the summer

Regarding the forecast of prolonged hot weather in 2025, EVN also took into account the electricity supply scenario at the end of 2024. In addition, in the first 4 months of 2025, the electricity demand in the North was always higher than that in the Central and South.

Faced with this situation, EVN has proactively established a working group and made a weekly plan to transfer the load, ensuring demand harmony and ensuring electricity supply nationwide. In the long term, EVN has implemented major groups of solutions to ensure no power shortage in any circumstances, including: Balancing costs, ensuring input materials for thermal power plants; making efforts to ensure the progress of large power plant projects such as the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant Expansion Project or the Quang Trach 1 Thermal Power Plant, and power transmission line projects are also being implemented on schedule by EVN...

Minh Huyen

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