This target is part of the Power Development Plan 8 approve earlier this year and the ‘unlikely’ assessment came from an article in Fulcrum penned by Phan Xuan Dung a Research Officer at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
Key takeaways:
- Vietnam’s grid can’t handle an influx of new wind power;
- A legal framework for local firms to develop offshore wind power projects doesn’t exist; and
- A lack of specific wind power policy means that projects are being assessed on a case-by-case basis and this is time consuming.