Wind power has currently become one of major energy sources. Recently, Vietnam started to conduct scientific researches in order to exploit the potential of the new energy source. A project was conducted to study and analyze the development of wind power in Ca Mau, one southern province of Vietnam. The aim of this project was to generate a view of current status of wind power development, financing ability of national and international investors.
The project focused on the wind power potential of Vietnam that included the theoretical wind potential and technical wind potential distributed from Ha Tinh to Soc Trang. The total area of theoretical wind potential was 5.339 km2, approximately 2.7 times higher than technical wind potential. According to observed data, Vietnam was able to exploit wind energy to produce electricity on industrial scale in some coastal areas in the Central, South Central Coast, Central Highlands and the Mekong River Delta.
Look at the development potential of wind power in Ca Mau province. Geographical location and natural conditions of Ca Mau province such as air temperature and wind frequency on recent years were firstly mentioned in the project report. Nowadays, public administration and business environment had been improved, creating trust and support from local people and firms for government. Secondly, by analyzing the data from 1995 to 2014, the wind power development potential in Ca Mau was evaluated through 3 different types of wind potential such as theoretical, technical and financial wind potential. Wind power master plan for Ca Mau province was then considered. The ranking criteria for wind power projects and list of projects in Ca Mau province was also indicated. Up to 2020, it was expected to have 5 wind projects with the capacity of 350 MW in total area of 9092 ha, and till 2030 have 16 wind power project with capacity of 3,607 MW in 90,167 ha.
The project also indicated supported mechanism and barriers to investment wind power in Vietnam. These obstacles include policy and planning of government, reliability of wind data, technical human resources, technical infrastructure in which the policies were assessed as biggest obstacle of this field. To deal with those problems, many ideas had been proposed to improve all aspects involved in wind power management. The solutions for each problem were proposed. By 2020, Ca Mau was expected to become socio-economically developed province that contributed to the development of Mekong River Delta and the whole country. At that time, only Khai Long – Phase 1 wind power project with the capacity of 100 MW was under construction and it would be operated in 2020 and helping Vietnam in reducing 193.3 thousand ton CO2eq and Khai Long - Phase 2 would be operated in 2030, reducing cumulated 3082.6 thousand ton CO2eq to replace import coal-fired power thermal plant. It would contribute 1.71% total GHG reduction of wind power plant of the whole country.
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