Vietnam’s renewable power objectives are taking a step ahead with the set up of a wind farm that may characteristic the most important onshore wind turbine put in within the nation up to now.
China’s Shanghai Electrical in February introduced its subsidiary, Electrical Wind Energy, will provide its superior wind generators to three way partnership companions Hai Anh Wind Energy Co., IPC Building Joint Inventory Co., and Asia Industrial Expertise Joint Inventory Co. for the Hai Anh Wind Farm Undertaking in Quang Tri Province. The wind farm, protecting an space of 855.25 hectares (about 2,110 acres), could have a era capability of 40 MW and can characteristic eight of Electrical Wind Energy’s WH5.25-172 wind generators.
Officers with Electrical Wind Energy stated the farm’s basis anchor parts had been delivered this month, with turbine supply anticipated in June, and set up accomplished by the top of August. The wind farm is anticipated to be linked to Vietnam’s energy grid by November of this yr.
Belt and Highway Initiative
The corporate stated the venture is a part of Electrical Wind Energy’s assist of China’s Belt and Highway Initiative and in addition is a part of Vietnam’s technique to develop extra renewable power energy era. Officers stated the Hai Anh Wind Farm Undertaking “is poised to turn out to be a mannequin for inexperienced growth” in Vietnam.
“The corporate’s world inexperienced power growth technique facilitates the transnational circulate of fresh and environment friendly power whereas growing the power provides of partnering international locations,” Electrical Wind Energy stated in a information launch. “This optimizes the native power consumption construction and drives inexperienced and low-carbon growth across the globe.”
Vietnam has dedicated to a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050; officers have stated the nation must quickly enhance its renewable power era capability to fulfill that purpose. BloombergNEF in a abstract of a report from the group revealed in October 2023 stated, “power derived from utility-scale photo voltaic is already cheaper than constructing new coal and gasoline energy crops in Vietnam. The levelized price of electrical energy [LCOE]—the monetary measure utilized by builders and buyers—for a brand new utility-scale photo voltaic venture in Vietnam ranges from $53-105 per megawatt-hour immediately, compared to $84-104/MWh for a mixed cycle gasoline turbine [or CCGT], and $75-94/MWh for a coal energy plant.”
BloombergNEF in its abstract stated, “By 2030, photo voltaic paired with batteries will obtain a less expensive LCOE than new thermal energy crops, whereas electrical energy from onshore wind paired with batteries would additionally turn out to be cheaper by the primary half of the 2030s. Though these kinds of hybrid energy crops will not be as dispatchable as coal or gasoline, so can’t be switched on or off when wanted, they do provide better dispatchability than renewables alone, and so can assist Vietnam obtain the next share of fresh power.”
Carolina Chua, a co-author of the BloombergNEF report, on the time stated, “Renewable power is now each an financial and sustainable alternative for Vietnam. “Renewables can enhance the nation’s power safety by decreasing its dependence on LNG [liquefied natural gas] and coal imports, whereas additionally creating new job alternatives. Our sensitivity evaluation reveals that even when fossil gas costs decline, renewables will nonetheless be less expensive than thermal energy crops.”
Energy Improvement Plan
The Vietnamese authorities in Might 2023 launched the nation’s Energy Improvement Plan VIII, or PDP8, protecting the interval till 2030. The report’s launch had been delayed as officers debated the nation’s future energy combine, with disagreements in regards to the timing of the closure of coal-fired energy crops, and the enlargement of renewable power sources. The PDP8 outlines the planning of Vietnam’s future energy sources, together with methods for upgrading the nationwide transmission grid infrastructure.
Officers stated planning within the report was primarily based on the considering that Vietnam’s gross home product will develop at a fee of 6.5% to 7.5% yearly from 2021 to 2050. As a part of the PDP8, Vietnam would cancel about 13 GW of proposed new coal-fired era capability, but additionally would proceed development of one other 13 GW of coal items—although all coal-fired era could be phased out by 2050.
The coal-fired energy crops that will be constructed within the coming years had been included within the revised model of the PDP7 report, launched in 2020, with these items scheduled to be constructed earlier than 2030. The PDP8 report, although, stipulated that development of any new coal-fired energy crops with out secured financing previous to June 2024 would must be canceled.
The PDP8 report’s objectives for Vietnam embrace a rise in renewable power, with photo voltaic, wind, and different renewable sources (outdoors of hydropower) offering at the very least 32% of the nation’s electrical energy by 2030. The Worldwide Commerce Administration (ITA), in a report revealed Jan. 30 of this yr, wrote that in accordance with Institute of Vitality of Vietnam, “Vietnam is ready to face a surge in energy demand and consumption over the approaching decade, which is able to have an effect on its power safety. The Authorities of Vietnam expects energy consumption to develop 10-12 % yearly by way of 2030, one of many quickest energy consumption development charges in Asia.”
The ITA wrote that, in accordance with PDP8, “the whole energy capability put in by 2030 [in Vietnam] will likely be about 146,000 MW and rise to greater than 416,000 MW by 2045. The proposed capability that coal will account for about 30,000 MW of energy era in 2030. As coal’s function in energy era diminishes, pure gasoline, photo voltaic and wind will present a bigger proportion.”
Vietnam’s power plans don’t embrace nuclear energy, although the PDP8 does permits for nuclear analysis. The revised PDP7 from 2020 known as for nuclear energy capability of 4,600 MW to be put in by 2030, which might symbolize 5.7% of Vietnam’s era combine. Vietnam in 2016 canceled plans for the nation’s first nuclear plant, Ninh Thuan, a 4,000-MW facility with 4 reactors that initially was anticipated to come back on-line between 2021 and 2025.
The Hai Anh Wind Farm Undertaking will present a small a part of the 21,000 MW of onshore and near-shore wind energy proposed in PDP8, which additionally requires 7,000 MW of offshore wind energy for Vietnam by 2030, in accordance with ITA.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior affiliate editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).
