MingYang wins order for 'Southeast Asia's largest offshore wind project'

Chinese OEM to supply 75 of its MySE 5.0-166 turbines to 375MW Ca Mau intertidal project in offshore wind breakthrough outside China

Bernd Radowitz

Chinese OEM MingYang Smart Energy has won an order from PowerChina International Group for the 375MW Ca Mau intertidal project in Vietnam, which it says is ‘Southeast Asia’s largest offshore wind power project.’

The order includes the supply of 75 of MingYang’s MySE 5.0-166 offshore wind turbines, the manufacturer said on a LinkedIn post.

Vietnam for years has been the region’s most vibrant wind power market, both for onshore and for offshore, the latter mostly in the form of intertidal projects in the vast Mekong River Delta, where western OEM’s Vestas and Siemens Gamesa have won a series of orders.

The Ca Mau order is a breakthrough for the Chinese wind turbine maker, which for a while has been pushing to penetrate markets outside its massive base in mainland China.

MingYang in August has unveiled a typhoon-proof 16MW offshore wind turbine that is the world’s largest launched commercially so far, leapfrogging its western rivals Siemens Gamesa, Vestas and GE Renewable Energy.

The company according to a recent report in the Bloomberg news agency also is planning to set up a wind turbine production plant in Germany, in what would be a first for a Chinese OEM in a European market dominated by western players.

Vietnam is currently changing its support regime for wind power, with feed-in tariffs (FITs) for wind projects expiring next month, which could affect several gigawatts of projects that are delayed due to impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

MingYang in its statement on LinkedIn signalled cooperation with Vietnamese authorities: “As the Vietnam wind market enters a new era with an updated pricing framework and the upcoming Power Development Plan VIII (PDP8), MingYang will continue to collaborate with local developers and supply chain leaders, expand its workforce of local experts and technicians, and provide professional training for them, all with the goal of contributing to the growth of Vietnam's clean energy sector and economy.”

Ca Mau will be built in two stages, with the first batch of turbines to be delivered in the first quarter of next year.

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