Offshore windfarm in Vietnam meets growing energy demand

Facing tight deadlines to secure preferentialfeed-in tariffs, the development was completed prior to the feed-in tariffdeadline, with assistance from Royal HaskoningDHV. The 48MW Korea - Tra Vinh Wind Farm helps meet rapidly growing energy demand while supporting Vietnam’s ambition to replace fossil fuel with renewable sources. It also created 500 new jobs during construction.

Owner’s engineering team on-site throughout the project

Tra Vinh Wind Power No.1 JSC contracted Royal HaskoningDHV to provide owner’s engineering services on the project. This included reviewing the engineering design, providing project management support services, and monitoring construction, installation and commissioning works for the entire complex including the substation, transmission line and connection to the grid.

A key focus for the project’s success was to start commercial operations within the deadline for preferential feed-in tariffs. To achieve this, close coordination was needed between all the teams involved. “Our client liked our approach,” explained Ron van der Wegen, Senior Construction Manager at Royal HaskoningDHV Vietnam. “Rather than monitoring the project through weekly visits as had been proposed, we placed a full time team on site. All aspects of the project were kept on track through the increased support provided for our client’s project management team, including scheduling and safety management.

The design review benefited from our multi-disciplinary expertise, drawing on technical support from experts in our windfarm team in the United Kingdom, structural engineers in the Netherlands and our specialist marine team.

Commercial operations start before vital tariff deadlines

As the deadline for the feed-in tariff approached the final stages of the project had to be completed within a very tight timeframe. Despite numerous delays during construction, some of these being considerable, the project was eventually completed prior to the key feed-in-tariff deadline. Multiple activities were undertaken in parallel, and through ongoing close cooperation, we kept the project on schedule.

“The schedule was kept on track throughout a process which is dependent on so many stakeholders and includes various procedures. The partnership developed with our client’s team, together with in-house expertise across these areas and experience in meeting challenging deadlines, ensured the windfarm went into commercial operation before the vital deadline,” Ron added.