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13 March, 2023

Wind Power in Vietnam

Wind turbines between canals, shrimp farms and swamp in Ben Tre Province, Vietnam, on March 6. Source: Bloomberg
• Around 60 projects on hold amid anti-graft campaign fears
• Lack of clarity risks dimming nation’s allure for investors

By Stephen Stapczynski, Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen and John Boudreau
March 9, 2023 at 5:00 AM GMT+7

A cluster of seven wind turbines towering above shrimp ponds and banana trees in Vietnam’s Ben Tre province should have been feeding clean power into the grid by now. Instead, they’ve sat idle for months and become a symbol of the red tape that’s plaguing the development of green electricity in the country.

The stalled wind farm in the Mekong Delta region is one of around 60 delayed projects across the country… More details