According to the Cong Ly Construction,
Commerce and Tourism Ltd. Co., the project's investor, the construction
of infrastructural facilities required for phase II began in November,
2013 and cost VND4.2 trillion (US$197 million) (EURO €
181 million).
Up to 65 per cent of the workload has
been completed; phase II is set to become fully operational in the second
quarter of 2016, said To Hoai Dan, Cong Ly company General Director.
Dan said that the first 20 turbines
of phase II will start supplying electricity to the national grid on May
29, of this year, raising the plant's nameplate energy generation capacity
to 48MW. The plant will the increase the nameplate capacity to 73.6MW after
the planned addition of 16 more turbines on September 2.
If all goes according to plan, April
30, 2016 will herald the end of construction with the last 16 turbines
added bringing maximum total capacity to 99.2 MW.
In the
first
phase of the project, 10 turbines
were built with a nameplate capacity of 16MW. They have already supplied
58 million KWh to the national grid in just 14 months.
With over 3,000 kilometres of coastline
and numerous islands within its national boundaries, Viet Nam has more
wind power potential than most of Southeast Asia with a total estimated
capacity of 24,000 megawatts. That ballpark figure is equal to the combined
capacity of all the currently existing thermoelectric plants in the country
which demand large amounts of imported coal.
According to figures from the Ministry
of Industry and Trade, Viet Nam currently has 48 wind power projects with
a combined capacity of 5,000MW registered at different stages and mainly
located in central and southern provinces.
According to the national power plan
till 2020, wind power has been prioritised and set a target of installing
a combined capacity of 1,000 megawatts by 2020./.
Cong Ly Company
will be collaborating with Bac Lieu
Province for the third phase of
the project, which will have a capacity of 480MW. Bac
Lieu will become the biggest wind farms in the Mekong River Delta and also
in Vietnam.
