Nuclear - Renewable

The Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade (MOIT DM) Dang Hoang An just had a meeting with Mr. Erling Rimestad – The State Secretary for the Norwegian Kingdom Foreign Affairs Ministry. On this occasion, Mr. Erling Rimestad introduced to the MOIT of Vietnam the Norwegian leading clean energy groups including Mainstream, Scatec, Norsk Solar, and Equinor exchanged the Norwegian prospects of investment sources in renewable energy in Vietnam and looked forward to learning about the regulations of Vietnam for the offshore wind power development.

Recognizing the trend of investment and growth in renewable energy, especially wind energy in Vietnam, Goldwind is committed to supporting the development of renewable energy training to meet the workforce demand and increase its localization rate in the country. The company also aims to provide long-term service in the market by building a team of highly skilled and professional technical personnel. Thus, Goldwind has proactively cooperated with universities in Ho Chi Minh City, including in the areas of electricity and renewable energy.

On the morning of February 10, during the official visit to Singapore, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Mr. Tow Heng Tan - Vice Chairman of the Management Council of Sembcorp Group and witnessed the ceremony for handing a joint development cooperation agreement between Sembcorp and a partner of the PetroVietnam (PVN) in developing the offshore wind power projects for exporting to Singapore.

Gao Jifan, chairman of the global PV and smart energy solutions provider Trina Solar, has used his appearance at the BloombergNEF Summit in Shanghai to tell his global peers about the way in which he sees the industry heading.

GWEC is a member-based organisation that represents the voice of global wind energy industry. The members of GWEC represent over 1,500 companies, organisations and institutions in more than 80 countries, including manufacturers, developers, component suppliers, research institutes, national wind and renewables associations, electricity providers, finance and insurance companies.

Trina Solar has once again been listed in the recently released BloombergNEF Tier 1 PV Module Maker List, 4Q 2022, thanks to its outstanding reliability, brilliant bankability and leading technology innovation.

On the morning of December 4, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Government Mission carried out a survey of the coastal wind power projects in Hoa Binh district, Bac Lieu province, worked with Bac Lieu provincial leaders, investors on renewable energy development in Bac Lieu province and Vietnam.

In recent time, at Sotrans Group’s office, Vietranstimex and Fagioli signed a MOU Signing Ceremony on the implementation of complex projects in Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy and Large Infrastructure in Vietnam market.

Within the framework of the Forum and Green Economy Forum and Exhibition GEFE 2022, on November 28, in Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received leaders of major European corporations, including Equinor, CIP, Mainstream, Vestas, Airbus, HSBC, Suez, Siemens Gamesa, Schneider… At this event, European Enterprises showed that they are ready to invest billions of USD in wind energy projects in Vietnam.

Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee (PPC) in coordination with the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Vietnam to organize a conference to stimulate investment of German enterprises in Binh Dinh province. At this event, Binh Dinh PPC and German PNE AG signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Binh Dinh offshore wind power projects with a total capacity of 2.000 MW and a total investment of 4.6 US$ billion.

Trina Solar has been awarded as bankable by all survey respondents in the PV Module and Inverter Bankability 2022 report issued by BloombergNEF. With this report, Trina Solar is now the only module manufacturer to be rated as bankable for 7 consecutive years by 100% of the industry respondents participating in the annual BloombergNEF survey.

On November 2, a mission of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) headed by Mr. Tran Duy Dong, Deputy Minister had a working meeting with the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) on formulating policies for the large state own enterprises. At the meeting, PVN proposed to license it to invest in the offshore renewable energy projects for taking advantage of PVN current resources and infrastructures to contribute to meeting the needs and commitments of Vietnam at COP26.

During the visit to Hai Phong on November 2nd, the Crown Prince of Denmark Frederik attended a trade and investment promotion event between Denmark and Hai Phong in offshore wind power. IPC Group, represented sustainable energy enterprises in Vietnam, has shared the view of the Contractor and Project Developer in the offshore wind power sector.

Doosan Enerbility Vietnam (Doosan Vina), Dung Quat Economic Zone, Binh Thuan Commune, Binh Son District, Quang Ngai, Vietnam: Global offshore wind leader Ørsted announced its latest cooperation agreement in Vietnam with Doosan Enerbility Vietnam, focused on foundations infrastructure and boosting local supply chains for offshore wind.

In order to finalize the development strategy of Binh Son Refine Joint Stock Company (BSR) to 2030, with a vision to 2045, on October 25, 2022, BSR and Boston Consulting Group (BCG with head office in the United States as the world's leading prestigious consultant has been selected to implement this project) held a high-level meeting between the parties to review the final report.