The 600 MW Monsoon wind energy mission in Laos is about to start out trial operations in late December, two months sooner than the initially deliberate February 2025 launch. The up to date timeline was introduced throughout a mission assessment assembly with Vietnam Electrical energy (EVN) on 28 August.
Nguyen Tai Anh, Deputy Basic Director of EVN, confirmed that discussions are ongoing with the Nationwide Electrical energy System and the Market Operation (NSMO) to regulate the authorized framework to fulfill the revised schedule, in response to Vietnamese media.
This mission, valued at USD 950 million, spans Sekong and Attapeu provinces in Laos and options 133 wind generators together with a 22-kilometer transmission line crossing the Laos-Vietnam border. Upon completion, it will likely be Laos’s first wind energy mission and one of many largest in Southeast Asia.
Funding within the mission comes from a consortium of worldwide buyers, together with Thailand’s Affect Electrons Siam Group and BCPG Public Firm restricted, Japan’s Mitsubishi Company, and Laos’s SMP session Sole Firm Restricted, amongst others.
Presently, EVN has already signed A 25-year energy buy settlement with the mission’s buyers.
This initiative marks the primary cross-border renewable vitality mission in Southeast Asia and is a central element of the Laos-Vietnam vitality cooperation plan, which goals to transmit 5,000 MW of electrical energy from Laos to Vietnam by 2030.
