Vietnam’s renewable vitality objectives are taking a step ahead with the set up of a wind farm that can characteristic the biggest onshore wind turbine put in within the nation to this point.
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 mentioned the farm’s basis anchor elements 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 related to Vietnam’s energy grid by November of this yr.
Belt and Street Initiative
The corporate mentioned the mission is a part of Electrical Wind Energy’s assist of China’s Belt and Street Initiative and in addition is a part of Vietnam’s technique to develop extra renewable vitality energy era. Officers mentioned the Hai Anh Wind Farm Undertaking “is poised to turn into a mannequin for inexperienced improvement” in Vietnam.
“The corporate’s international inexperienced vitality improvement technique facilitates the transnational move of unpolluted and environment friendly vitality whereas growing the vitality provides of partnering nations,” Electrical Wind Energy mentioned in a information launch. “This optimizes the native vitality consumption construction and drives inexperienced and low-carbon improvement across the globe.”
Vietnam has dedicated to a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050; officers have mentioned the nation must quickly improve its renewable vitality era capability to satisfy that objective. BloombergNEF in a abstract of a report from the group revealed in October 2023 mentioned, “vitality derived from utility-scale photo voltaic is already cheaper than constructing new coal and gasoline energy crops in Vietnam. The levelized value of electrical energy [LCOE]—the monetary measure utilized by builders and traders—for a brand new utility-scale photo voltaic mission in Vietnam ranges from $53-105 per megawatt-hour at this time, 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 mentioned, “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 into cheaper by the primary half of the 2030s. Though a majority of these hybrid energy crops aren’t 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 a better share of unpolluted vitality.”
Carolina Chua, a co-author of the BloombergNEF report, on the time mentioned, “Renewable vitality is now each an financial and sustainable alternative for Vietnam. “Renewables can enhance the nation’s vitality 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 gasoline costs decline, renewables will nonetheless be more cost effective 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 concerning the timing of the closure of coal-fired energy crops, and the enlargement of renewable vitality sources. The PDP8 outlines the planning of Vietnam’s future energy sources, together with methods for upgrading the nationwide transmission grid infrastructure.
Officers mentioned planning within the report was primarily based on the considering that Vietnam’s gross home product will develop at a charge 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 can 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 have to be canceled.
The PDP8 report’s objectives for Vietnam embrace a rise in renewable vitality, with photo voltaic, wind, and different renewable sources (outdoors of hydropower) offering no less than 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 line 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 vitality safety. The Authorities of Vietnam expects energy consumption to develop 10-12 % yearly by 2030, one of many quickest energy consumption progress charges in Asia.”
The ITA wrote that, in line with PDP8, “the full energy capability put in by 2030 [in Vietnam] might 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 position in energy era diminishes, pure gasoline, photo voltaic and wind will present a bigger proportion.”
Vietnam’s vitality plans don’t embrace nuclear energy, although the PDP8 does permits for nuclear analysis. The revised PDP7 from 2020 referred to as for nuclear energy capability of 4,600 MW to be put in by 2030, which might characterize 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 return 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 line with ITA.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior affiliate editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).