HANOI
– Vietnam holds huge growth potential for wind energy and has policy incentives
available for this sector but only three wind power projects have been put into
operation nationwide, according to a conference in Hanoi on November 29.
Speaking
at the conference on wind energy held by the Danish Embassy, Deputy Minister of
Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong said that with a coastline of over 2,300
kilometers, the country is in a good position to develop the wind power sector.
The
Government has taken a couple of policy steps to spur clean energy development,
including Decision 37, and has set a target of increasing the wind power
capacity to 6,000 MW by 2030, 2.1% of total power output.
With
the support of the Danish Embassy and other foreign partners, the nation is
drawing up a wind energy map.
Vuong
noted the three existing wind farms have a combined capacity of just 150 MW. He
explained investors are not interested in this field as wind power prices are
still low.
Henrik
Breum, special adviser the Danish Energy Agency’s Centre for Global
Cooperation, told the conference that before the 1973 oil crisis, 99% of
electricity in Denmark was sourced from fossil fuel-fired power stations.
But
things changed a lot in the following 40 years as Denmark embraced green
energy. In 2014, renewable energy accounted for 56% of total power generation
in Denmark, the highest percentage in the world.
Wind
energy requires big upfront investments, so the Danish government has adopted
appropriate polices, set suitable electricity prices for a long term and give
priority to the use of wind power in the national grid.
Steve
Sawyer, secretary general of the Global Wind Energy Council, said at the
conference that wind power contributed around half of the world’s electricity
production growth in 2015.
Wind
power makes up 4% of the world’s electricity output and the percentage may
climb to 8% by 2020, 18-20% by 2030 and around 30% by 2050 if countries
concentrate on combating climate change, said Sawyer.
Charlotte
Laursen, Danish Ambassador to Vietnam, said that according to Vietnam’s power
industry development strategy adopted in 2011, the proportion of renewable
energy in its total power output would reach 7% by 2020 and 10% by 2030
(excluding hydropower).
Wind
power plays a pivotal role in this strategy, she said, because Vietnam has the
biggest wind power potential in the region. Denmark is ready to help Vietnam
develop this source of clean energy, she noted.
Source:
Bao E.Vnexpress
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