According to VNS News, Vietnam still faces many difficulties in the utilization of renewable energy in 2022, as the number of renewable energy that has been put into operation in recent years has taken a heavy toll on the power grid. Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade will not add any wind and solar energy to its plans this year due to a lack of input facilities to feed wind and solar energy to the national grid.

At the National Load Dispatching Center's 2021 review meeting on Jan. 10, deputy director Nguyễn Trọng Hưng said that total electricity generation and imports, including rooftop solar, are expected to reach 275.5 billion kWh this year, up 7.9 percent from 2021.

Total hydropower production is expected to be 82.5 billion kWh, an increase of 3.8 billion kWh from 2021, Trung said.

3,407 MW of conventional power sources expected to be operational in 2022, including large thermal power plants with a capacity of 600 MW each, such as Nghi Sơn 2 and Sông Hậu 1, which will no longer have wind, farm solar and rooftop solar on the grid this year connected to the grid.

Trung further stated that with the increase in the commissioning rate of renewable energy, the issue of real-time stability of the power system is still a huge challenge, adding that "the use of renewable energy in 2022 still faces many difficulties because of the increased commissioning of renewable energy in recent years. The amount of renewable energy is hitting the grid.”