Plan to send Vietnamese offshore wind power to Singapore progresses
Singapore wants to import up to 4GW of clean power from neighbours by 2035, as lack of available land in city-state hinders its own renewable energy build out
An ambitious plan to build a 2.3GW offshore wind farm in Vietnam that will generate power to be sent to Singapore via a 1,000km subsea cable has taken its latest step as key contracts are handed out.
A PetroVietnam subsidiary held a ceremony with Sembcorp Industries in Singapore this week to award contracts to assess wind and metocean conditions and carry out a geotechnical survey for the project.
The execution of the contracts will “provide the foundational database for the engineering, construction, and operation of the offshore wind farm in Vietnam,” PetroVietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC) announced yesterday.
PTSC partnered with Singaporean state-owned energy and urban development company Sembcorp last year on the project to send 1.2GW of clean power from Vietnam to Singapore via a 1,000km subsea interconnector.
The Singaporean government has also granted its conditional approval for the project, which builds on a memorandum of understanding Singapore and Vietnam signed in 2022 on energy cooperation.
Singapore plans to import up to 4GW of clean power by 2035. To date, its energy ministry has also granted conditional approvals to plans to import 2GW of power from Indonesia and 1GW from Cambodia.