Publication: Viet Nam Offshore Wind Sectoral Planning: Offshore Wind Development Program
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2025-07-23
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2025-07-23
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Viet Nam has pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. This will require increasing diversity in Viet Nam’s electricity supply, a transition to renewable electricity generation, and a reduction in the dependence on coal for electricity generation. Offshore wind holds significant potential for Viet Nam as a large-scale, clean, and reliable form of electricity generation. In 2023, with the approval of the Power Development Plan VIII (PDP8), Viet Nam set a target to install at least 6 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and between 70 GW and 91.5 GW by 2050. With the planned large-scale deployment of offshore wind in Viet Nam, marine spatial planning is critical. This was highlighted in the World Bank’s Offshore Wind Roadmap for Viet Nam which recommended that marine spatial planning for offshore wind is undertaken as a priority activity. This report describes an early-stage marine spatial planning exercise that has been undertaken to inform the location of future offshore wind projects. It provides spatial data layers, an adaptable methodology, and advisory analysis to help identify the least constrained, most economically attractive areas for offshore wind deployment in Viet Nam.
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“World Bank. 2025. Viet Nam Offshore Wind Sectoral Planning: Offshore Wind Development Program. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/43484 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”
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