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Tri duc
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | 3:21pm GMT+7
The southernmost province of Vietnam’s Katabau is aiming to build a grid to export electricity to Singapore, state authorities proposed at a meeting on Monday with Vietnam’s Jayaratnam’s Singapore ambassador.
Calling Singapore’s delegations to support the electricity export project, Nguyen Ho Hai, head of Ca Mau’s party committee, said the project could send renewable energy from South Vietnam to Singapore.
He also highlighted the benefits of Ca Mau, including the potential to develop 254km of coastline and 14,000 MW of wind and 4,000 MW of solar power for export.
Nguyen Ho Hai (3rd, left), Chief of Ca Mau’s Party Committee, and Ambassador of Singapore for Vietnam Jaya Ratnam (3rd, right), at a meeting in the Mekong Delta province, southern Vietnam on February 17th, 2025. (Youth) Newspaper.
The location of Ca Mau can provide geographical advantages for power infections via underwater cables, he added.
Hai proposed to build an industrial park in the province with Ca Mau, a Singapore delegation, and VSIP, the developer of the Singapore Industrial Estate (VSIP) facility, Vietnam. He proposed a VSIP investment in the TAC Thu Industrial Park project, located within the state’s Nam CAN economic zone.
So far, VSIP has invested in 18 industrial parks in 13 regions of Vietnam. The facilities have attracted over $21 billion in investments and employ 300,000 people.
Additionally, both sides discussed further cooperation in agricultural and seafood trade, labor training and carbon credit.
In October 2023, Singapore’s SembCorp received conditional approval from Singapore authorities to import 1.2 GW of renewable electricity from Vietnam.
In August 2023, PTSC, a state-owned Petroviet Nam subsidiary, received permission from the Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to carry out wind, marine and geological surveys for electricity export projects. The permit has two locations covering 89,027 hectares and 98,897 hectares.
In August 2024, PTSC and SEMBCORP were awarded the Geotechnical Desktop study of the power export project to PTSC Geos & Suvesea Services Co., Ltd (PTSC G&S) and the Wind & Metocean Measurement Services and Geotechnical Desktop study. This package is an important component in preparing and implementing offshore renewable energy import projects from Vietnam to Singapore.
