The program will support the installation of solar power in Ho Chi Minh City at a price of 2,000 VND / KWh electricity generated from the solar power system.

On November 20, the national energy efficiency award for Industry 2017 was officially launched.

On October 24, Ca Mau Provincial People's Committee held a conference on renewable energy development and evaluated the potential of renewable energy (RE) forms from now to 2030 with a vision to 2035. Attending the conference, there were Pham Trong Thuc, Department of Renewable Energy (Ministry of Industry and Trade) with leaders of branches, localities and more than 150 enterprises inside and outside the province.

On October 23, in Soc Trang, the working delegation of Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy (Ministry of Industry and Trade) had a meeting with Soc Trang Provincial People's Committee to evaluate the implementation of wind power projects under wind power development planning in the province.

Da Nang Polytechnical University has just put into use of solar power system with a total capacity of 49.6 kWp.

On September 20, 2017, in Hanoi, World Bank (WB) and Electricity Group of Vietnam (EVN) launched a campaign to promote the deployment of renewable energy with the installation of 5 solar energy measurement stations across the country.

Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) and Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) have signed a co-financing sponsor agreement for Phong Dien Solar Power Plant Project in Thua Thien Hue province.

SY Corporation (South Korea) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bac Lieu province for the development of a 300 MW solar power plant project.

In the morning of September 17, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue and a delegation from the Government began a working trip to Belgium to visit the projects for solar power and wind power of Rent A Port.

Implementation of the Prime Minister's Decision No. 11/2017 / QD-TTg dated April 11, 2017 on mechanisms to encourage the development of solar power projects in Vietnam, Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade studied and evaluated the potential of solar energy in the city as a basis for proposing the development planning of solar power in Hanoi for the period to 2020, vision to 2030.