The Regulations on ensuring the performance of electricity purchase and sale contracts

On 8/02/2025, the Government issued Decree No. 18/2025/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Electricity Law related to electricity purchase and sale activities and situations of ensuring electricity supply.

Accordingly, organizations and individuals when proposing to enter into electricity purchase and sale contracts for domestic purposes must ensure the following conditions:

The subject proposing to enter into a contract of the electricity buyer is the legal representative or authorized by the electricity buyer to enter into the contract.

The subject proposing to enter into a contract of the electricity seller is the legal representative or authorized by the electricity retailer that meets the needs of the electricity buyer to enter into the contract.

The subject participating in the proposal to enter into a contract must ensure the conditions for the validity of civil transactions according to the provisions of the Civil Law. In case the person loses civil act capacity, the legal representative of the person who loses civil act capacity is the subject participating in the proposal to enter into a contract.

In case the electricity buyer consists of many households using electricity together and entering into a contract, the subject entering into the contract of the electricity buyer is the representative of the households using electricity together who signs the contract and has a written authorization from the other households using electricity together.

The contract must clearly state the number of households using electricity together (with a list attached) and the electricity price applied according to the provisions of the law on electricity. The authorization is implemented according to the provisions of the law on civil affairs.

In case the electricity buyer is a tenant of a house for residence, the subject entering into the contract of the electricity buyer is the house owner or the tenant authorized in writing by the house owner.

In which, the house owner has a commitment to pay the electricity bill in case the tenant authorized by the subject entering into the contract does not fulfill the obligation to pay the electricity bill.

At a location for registering to buy electricity, the electricity buyer is a household and can only enter into one contract.

The electricity buyer prepares a request to enter into a contract to buy and sell electricity for domestic purposes in paper form or in the form of a data message with the same value as a document as prescribed by law, and sends one set of documents to the electricity seller in the case of paper documents.

The request to enter into a contract to buy and sell electricity for domestic purposes includes a request to enter into a contract to buy and sell electricity for domestic purposes; the personal identification number of the legal representative or the authorized representative of the electricity buyer as established by the National Population Database.

The electricity seller must enter into a contract and supply electricity to the electricity buyer within 7 working days from the date the parties meet the provisions of the Decree.

This Decree takes effect from the date of signing.