The wind-power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, which isamong the largest ones in Southeast Asia, joined the national power gridon May 29. It opens up a great opportunity to develop windelectricity in both regional and national scale.
2012 is considered as an eventful year in the development of windelectricity with 10 giant turbines installed in Bac Lieu sea and dozensof other projects planned across the country, particularly in the MekongDelta region.
The construction of the plant, whichis bigger than the one in central Binh Thuan province, began onSeptember 9, 2010. The project covers 50 hectares of alluvial land with atotal investment of 4.5 trillion VND (214 million USD). It includes 62wind turbines and has a capacity of 99MW, generating 400 million kWh peryear. And its 10th turbine was successfully installed on October 2,2012.
Particularly, the wind turbines are installedin coastal swamp areas where do not contain production land, thus localresidents are almost not affected by the project.
The project’s initial success offers a direction of developing windelectricity for investors and local authorities. In the Mekong Deltaregion alone, dozens of wind-power projects have been planned atpresent.
Following this plant’s success, Bac Lieuprovince has been allowed by the Government to expand its project to 10wind turbines.
In the southern province of SocTrang, four wind-power plants are expected to be built in Vinh Chau andTran De districts with a total capacity of 300MW. Investment in a 200MWwind-power plant in Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City, is also beingpromoted.
In October 2011, the US Export - ImportBank pledged to give a one billion USD loan to Vietnam to develop windelectricity in Mekong Delta provinces from 2011 to 2015.
Vesta, the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, signed anagreement on planning and developing wind-power plants in Vietnamwith the Cong Ly Construction-Trade-Tourism Company – investor of theBac Lieu power plant – on November, 2012.
Earlier,on September 26, 2011, the Government issued preferential policies oninvestment in wind electricity (under the Decision No. 37/2011/QD-TTg),with a number of content which facilitate the development of windelectricity in both local and national scales.
According to General Director of the Cong Ly Company To Hoai Dan, theWorld Bank conducted a detailed survey of wind energy in Southeast Asia. And Vietnam has the greatest potential of wind energy among foursurveyed countries, namely Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Up to 8.6 percent of Vietnam’s territory is rated to be good or verygood for building large wind turbines, compared to 0.2 percent inCambodia, 2.9 percent in Laos and 0.2 percent in Thailand.
The total potential of Vietnam’s wind electricity is estimated at513,360 MW, over 200 times more than the Son La Hydropower Plant’scurrent capacity.
Forty one percent of rural area inthe country is favourable to build small wind turbines to serve theeconomic development, whereas only 6 percent of that in Cambodia, 13percent in Laos and 9 percent in Thailand is.
“Nowwe can affirm that wind energy is an enormous potential of Vietnam ingeneral and of the Mekong Delta region in particular. And there are nowall favourable conditions to exploit it”, said To Hoai Dan.-VNA
2012 is considered as an eventful year in the development of windelectricity with 10 giant turbines installed in Bac Lieu sea and dozensof other projects planned across the country, particularly in the MekongDelta region.
The construction of the plant, whichis bigger than the one in central Binh Thuan province, began onSeptember 9, 2010. The project covers 50 hectares of alluvial land with atotal investment of 4.5 trillion VND (214 million USD). It includes 62wind turbines and has a capacity of 99MW, generating 400 million kWh peryear. And its 10th turbine was successfully installed on October 2,2012.
Particularly, the wind turbines are installedin coastal swamp areas where do not contain production land, thus localresidents are almost not affected by the project.
The project’s initial success offers a direction of developing windelectricity for investors and local authorities. In the Mekong Deltaregion alone, dozens of wind-power projects have been planned atpresent.
Following this plant’s success, Bac Lieuprovince has been allowed by the Government to expand its project to 10wind turbines.
In the southern province of SocTrang, four wind-power plants are expected to be built in Vinh Chau andTran De districts with a total capacity of 300MW. Investment in a 200MWwind-power plant in Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City, is also beingpromoted.
In October 2011, the US Export - ImportBank pledged to give a one billion USD loan to Vietnam to develop windelectricity in Mekong Delta provinces from 2011 to 2015.
Vesta, the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, signed anagreement on planning and developing wind-power plants in Vietnamwith the Cong Ly Construction-Trade-Tourism Company – investor of theBac Lieu power plant – on November, 2012.
Earlier,on September 26, 2011, the Government issued preferential policies oninvestment in wind electricity (under the Decision No. 37/2011/QD-TTg),with a number of content which facilitate the development of windelectricity in both local and national scales.
According to General Director of the Cong Ly Company To Hoai Dan, theWorld Bank conducted a detailed survey of wind energy in Southeast Asia. And Vietnam has the greatest potential of wind energy among foursurveyed countries, namely Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Up to 8.6 percent of Vietnam’s territory is rated to be good or verygood for building large wind turbines, compared to 0.2 percent inCambodia, 2.9 percent in Laos and 0.2 percent in Thailand.
The total potential of Vietnam’s wind electricity is estimated at513,360 MW, over 200 times more than the Son La Hydropower Plant’scurrent capacity.
Forty one percent of rural area inthe country is favourable to build small wind turbines to serve theeconomic development, whereas only 6 percent of that in Cambodia, 13percent in Laos and 9 percent in Thailand is.
“Nowwe can affirm that wind energy is an enormous potential of Vietnam ingeneral and of the Mekong Delta region in particular. And there are nowall favourable conditions to exploit it”, said To Hoai Dan.-VNA
