The Vietnamese government has announced a new energy strategy, the latest version of its National Power Development Plan VIII for the 2021-30 period. Among other things this plan brings back Net Metering for solar, ditched in mid-2019, and ends the policy limbo which had limited solar and wind build out since January 2021. As we always mention in an article about Vietnam, the country had a highly generous Feed-in Tariff introduced in 2019, which was cut twice and then abruptly abolished at the end of 2020, after it had briefly made Vietnam the 2nd biggest global solar market in Q4 2020, absurdly, and left the grid with a congestion headache. For most of the 28 months of policy limbo since…