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The Prime Minister of Vietnamese Government has issued the Decision No 39/2018/QĐ-TTg dated 10/9/2018 for adjusting and supplementing a number of articles of the Decision No 37/2011/QĐ-TTg dated at 29/6/2011 on the mechanism to support the development of wind power projects in Vietnam.

In Vung Tau city has been held the signing ceremony on comprehensive cooperation between the Singapore Enterprize Energy & RE Global Solution and the associate of PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) and Vietsovpetro (VSP) to develop an offshore wind power project in Vietnam. The project is located in 30 km from Binh Thuan sea coast and has a capacity of 1200 MW, total investment level of US$ 3.5 billion. The investment of the project will be diverged in two phases as 600 MW in 2018 - 2021 and 600 MW in 2021 – 2023.

Singapore – based renewables developer The Blue Circle and its Vietnamese partner TSV began construction of Dam Nai wind power plant on April 28 in Tan Hai commune, Ninh Hai district, the central province of Ninh Thuan.

Phu Cuong Group, GE (US) and Mainstream Group (Ireland) have signed an investment cooperation agreement on wind power project in Soc Trang province with a capacity up to 800 MW and a total investment of about US$ 2 billion.

Construction commenced on a wind power plant in Dat Mui Commune of Ngoc Hien District in the far-southern province of Ca Mau on September 27.

The Prime Minister has approved the Project  “Wind Power Development in Vietnam” with  ODA fund of German Government.

“During the visit to Vietnam of Denmark Crown Prince Successor in coming November, besides 3 investment funds, in a total 36 enterprises including delegation, there will be 22 enterprises in the wind power field to look for the investment cooperation opportunities.” - Vietnam Trade Office in Sweden, holding concurrently Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Latvia informed.

Mr. Duong Quang Thanh - Chairman of the Member Council of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) just had a working meeting with Mr. Tan See Leng - Minister of Manpower Ministry and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Singapore, and the delegates of the Singapore Mission to Hanoi for exchanging views on cooperation in the energy field. At the meeting, the two sides expected that Vietnam and Singapore's power grids may be connected by 2035 for Singapore to buy offshore power electricity from Vietnam.

On January 16, 2022, Trungnam Tra Vinh 1 Wind Power Joint Stock Company, a member of Trung Nam Group held a ceremony for inaugurating Dong Hai 1 Wind Power Project in Tra Vinh province. This project is the first step for the "sea voyage" demonstrating the construction capacity of Trungnam Group, in successful implementing the first offshore wind power project, overcoming the trial of the time and natural unfavorable factors in the Southwest region, opening the way for offshore wind power projects of Trung Nam Group in coming time.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) informed that as of the beginning of August 2021, there 106 wind power projects with a total capacity of 5,655.5 MW sent the documents for asking the EVN to recognize them in Commercial Operation Date (COD).

At present, in Vietnam many wind power projects (WPPs) deployed, but there is no sample  contract pattern established for this type of projects, so WPP EPC contractors and turbine suppliers still have a lot of questions and it is necessary to study and complete.

Explaining an information that, in recent years, many wind and solar projects were initially assigned to Vietnamese investors, but later transferred to Foreign investors to invest, own, manage and operate, Mr. Hoang Tien Dung - Director of Electricity and Renewable Energy Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) affirmed that transferring all or a part of the investment project is a normal transaction in the market mechanism and is regulated by the Investment Law.

On July 16, 2020, at Headquarter of Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam - Hanoi Branch (BIDV Hanoi Branch), BIDV Insurance Corporation (BIC) and Ben Tre Renewable Energy Joint Stock company (BTRE) organized the ceremony on insuring for Ben Tre V1-3 Wind Power Project.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has just issued the Unified Document No. 07/VBHN-BCT for regulating wind power development and Standardized Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for wind power projects. 

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed the Document No. 311/TTg-CN on March 10, 2020 for agreeing to adjust the capacity of Trung Nam wind power project from 105.75 MW to 151.95 MW Previously, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued Document No.1237/BCT-DL, dated 25/22020, on adjusting capacity of Trung Nam wind power project (that has been supplemented to Power Development Planning VII adjusted by Prime Minister) from 105.75 MW to 151.95 MW.