According to Vietnamese media reports, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh said recently that the previously set photovoltaic power generation target for 2031-2045 was "too high" and should be appropriately lowered to make room for wind power generation.
In late February this year, Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to set the country's installed power capacity at 146,000 megawatts from now until 2030, which is 9,000 megawatts less than the plan announced in November last year. The ministry also said that by 2045, Vietnam plans to have 352,000 megawatts of installed capacity, of which photovoltaics will account for 25 percent.
According to data from the Electric Power Company of Vietnam (EVN), as of 2021, Vietnam has ranked among the "Top 10 Global Photovoltaic Power Generation", reaching 16,504 MW, accounting for 2.3 percent of the world's total.
L'informe també afirmava que el pla general per al desenvolupament de l'electricitat al Vietnam ha passat per quatre rondes de revisions des que el Ministeri d'Indústria i Comerç de Vietnam va presentar el primer esborrany el març de l'any passat, i la pols encara no s'ha assentat. Davant d'això, el Ministeri d'Indústria i Comerç de Vietnam ha demanat a les autoritats superiors que posposen el termini específic d'execució del pla al segon trimestre d'aquest any.
The same plan says that by 2045, renewable energy will account for 70 percent to 75 percent of Vietnam's national electricity capacity. At the 2021 UN climate change conference, Vietnam pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
El director de l'Administració d'Electricitat i Energies Renovables del Vietnam, Huang Thien Dung, també va dir recentment que Vietnam accelerarà la transició dels combustibles fòssils a les energies netes i renovables. Tran Van Dong, viceministre de Ciència i Tecnologia del Vietnam, va assenyalar que Vietnam té un gran potencial per al desenvolupament d'energies renovables, amb uns 217 GW d'energia eòlica terrestre, uns 160 GW d'energia eòlica marina i uns 434 GW de generació d'energia fotovoltaica. .
Segons l'últim esborrany del pla director de desenvolupament de l'energia, l'any 2045, els parcs eòlics marí a Vietnam estaran ubicats principalment al nord i al sud del país, amb una capacitat instal·lada que augmentarà en 36 gigawatts, la qual cosa representarà el 10,8 per cent de la generació total d'energia.
Matthews Holland, senior manager at the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), said Vietnam's offshore wind power efficiency could exceed 50 percent, rivaling that of hydropower. According to GWEC estimates, Vietnam's initial investment for the first 4-5 GW offshore wind farms is up to US12 billion, but subsequent operating costs can be greatly reduced. The cost of generating electricity per 1,000 kWh of offshore wind in Vietnam is expected to be around US83, which will further drop to US58 by 2025.
Holland també va dir que Vietnam té una llarga costa de 3.260 quilòmetres, així com un nivell del mar baix i una gran velocitat del vent (de 7 a 10 metres per segon a una alçada de 100 metres), i les condicions naturals per al desenvolupament de l'energia eòlica marina són únic.
However, the United Nations Development Programme reminded the Vietnamese side that the latter should also pay attention to how to use new energy more effectively. Currently, Vietnam's unit energy consumption (the amount of energy required to produce 1 unit of GDP) is 1.5 to 1.7 times that of other countries in the region. That is, if Vietnam wants to be carbon neutral, it needs to cut manufacturing emissions in half. Moreover, with the increase of power generation, how to transmit and distribute safely, efficiently and energy-savingly is also a priority for Vietnam to be solved urgently.