Prioritizing factors for the sustainable growth of Vietnam's solar photovoltaic power market

Hong Eun Moon, Si Won Choi and Yoon Hee Ha

Energy & Environment, 2024, vol. 35, issue 4, 2151-2177

Abstract: This study investigates the factors that affect the investment environment of the renewable energy industry in emerging countries, and quantifies them to derive relative priorities, drawing on the Vietnamese solar market as a critical case. Vietnam's solar photovoltaic (PV) market was exposed to various adverse policy situations during 2017–2019. The priorities of the determinant factors were derived using analytic hierarchy process analysis, based on a survey of 20 energy experts. The priority of the factors in Level 1 include, in descending order, policies , legal framework , profitability , ease of access to finance , infrastructure , and external factors . The top five of the 29 important factors in Level 2 are level of policy implementation , policy consistency (predictability) , feed-in-tariff price , incentives and subsidies for foreign (direct) investment in solar PV , fruitage remittance , and transmission/distribution lines . We demonstrate that the active establishment and implementation of policies is crucial for the development of the renewable energy market. The improvement of the grid infrastructure and measures for system integration should be supported in accordance with solar power deployment. Therefore, actively engaging the interests of various stakeholders comprehensively and in a balanced manner during policymaking can be decisive in supporting stable market growth, facilitated by partnerships between local developers and international investors.

Keywords: Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) analysis; climate change; feed-in-tariff (FiT); foreign direct investment (FDI); renewable energy industry; solar PV market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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